Excerpt from God and the Soul: A Poem When young and virginal souls feel the touch of His divine presence they turn from all lures and delights that they may dwell with Him alone when the old and forsaken remember Him, the Springtime blooms about them, and thoughts fra grant with eternal bliss bring again the days when life was joy and love. Where He is, seriousness is glad and toil is sweet where He is not pleasure palls and there IS a sob in the laughter Of mirth. He is the beginning and the end; or, if not so, between the beginning and the end there is but a vain dream of phantoms which no substance own. 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.