Excerpt from Echoes From the Mountain Neglected, blind, and helpless, Phineus sat, Feeling with sightless face towards the sun. And yet some remnant of his former grace Bedecked the royal ruin, and the gift Of prophecy shone from his leaden eyes. The throng of youths stood mute and reverent, While, lowly bowing, Jason thus began. 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.