The Human Fantasy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Human Fantasy<br><br>[see you stand before me, -<br>Bizarre, absurd, enchanting, -<br>(The swinging, silver satchel,<br>The dear, ridiculous dress),<br><br>A little, dauntless figure,<br>Half lost in the enormous<br>Gay picture-hat bowed forward<br>Across the eager face.<br><br>Its single feather trembles<br>Against the dusk. Beyond you<br>The squalid, huddled city<br>With one red, flaring lamp<br><br>Looms sinister and haunting,<br>- The wastes that bred and bore you, -<br>A mockery heartbreaking,<br>A menace and a joke.<br><br>But you stand all unknowing, -<br>Glad-hearted, well, and reckless,<br>Magnanimous and merry,<br>My lost one, - O my youth!<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.