Excerpt from The Oasis, or Golden Leaves of Friendship Few welcome shades invite their bands: Day after day they travelled on, Till fell exhaustion claimed the breath; When fainting, at the setting sun, A broad Oasis saved from death They ate, they drank forgot their fears Again the future bright appears. 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.