The Hermit of the Saco

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Excerpt from The Hermit of the Saco: Story of the White Mountains The Hermit Of The Saco Introduction Why is the Minstrel mute? Is there no Theme In this fair land? Is Freedom's touch so cold, Too harsh for music, too wakeful for a dream? So lost in selfishness, and lust for gold, That the sweet Muse forgets to pluck the strings That lift the soul till with the spheres it sings? Are these bright fields that lull the eastern sea, And yonder slope, gilded by setting sun, - A rising Empire, vaster, it may be, Than ever yet the sun hath shone upon, - Not worth a poem, ringing out its praise, The story of the times, its early days? Is there no hand to gather the bright flowers That strew the pathway of its hill and glen? No bard like Scotland's, with transcendent powers, 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.