The Worship of the Serpent
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Purnell, Charles William) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Worship of the Serpent: And Other Poems In 1912 I published, in London, a volume of verses entitled "The Modem Arthur, and other Poems." They dealt with a variety of topics, and included metrical versions of a few Maori legends, which, so far as I know, had never been done into English verse before. Since 1912 the world has been convulsed by a war in which almost every civilized nation took part. It may rightly be described as a titanic struggle from which Titans were absent. The size of the armed forces engaged was without precedent in history. Numberless deeds of valour were performed, and the heroism displayed was not confined to the soldiers or sailors of any one of the combatant nations; battles raged, men fell in multitudes like autumn leaves before a gale; nevertheless the conflict lacked poetic grandeur - that grandeur which has immortalized battles wherein far smaller numbers of combatants participated. Even the wonderful achievements of the British Navy during the war have covered it with the glory of the golden mist rather than with that of the sun in full splendour. The hymnings of a marvellous epic were heard; but the imperious figures of kings of men were not seen. The gods no longer visit the Earth; and even in war men´s individual capacities count for less and less than heretofore. The Second Part of this book contains poems relating to the war. Some were published in New Zealand newspapers while the war raged; others are new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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