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Excerpt from The Locust Flower and the Celibate: Two Plays
The crowd tramples on the wildflowers in the forest to find a restful spot for feast and danc ing. The poet kneels at the shrine of the same wild flowers, gently and reverently feasts the soul and not the senses, and departs with linger ing and loving farewells. The most completely beautiful appreciation of a play has ever been by the poet, who was often greater than the play itself, as he sat by the fireside on a winter's evening, too poor to have the lights and color, throng, music and the players; but who shut his eyes over the rhythmic lines and dreamed as the author had dreamed before him the sleet on the roof for his orchestra, the crackling fire for the diction of his players, the mystery of candle-light for his color! 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.
