Excerpt from Songs of the Heart He came like a whirlwind, almost outrun ning the breath of winter which: had slipped in at his heels. He at once gathered them around him these three men - and held them, and infinitely charmed them with his wonderful flow of more wonderful talk The sparks from the forge of his genius flew upward and about, fast and furious. He was fresh from his desk, where he had spent the early hours of the night. On the morrow the world would read, breathless, what he had written. A word from his magic pen, and matters of State are made or broken. There he was among them - his more seri ous work thrown aside. He was ripe for a full and free communion with the souls of men who could appreciate and understand him. Need his name be told? Is he not the Saul in Israel, head and shoulders above his breth ren? Is he not a man brilliant, powerful, and full of peculiar genius? In short, is he not our own Henry Watterson? 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.