Excerpt from Reincarnated: A Romance of the Soul Prelude As on an organ with a groping touchThe player picks from out the sleeping chordsOne single te, and then ather formsBeneath the hand, that wandering here and thereFeels out the mir of the loftier strain, That disconnected, fugitive and vague, Yet holds within its lesser harmoniesThe keytes of the whole, And through this inspiration to his thought, Fair, fleeting fancies take their perfect shapes, For w the prelude holds the basic partsFrom which are improvised completed wholes;So with the tale which follows; in its courseTo touch alone the tones that underlie, The warp that runs among the pictured woof, And holds it close together.For so one learns to handle all the stops, Test the capacity of all the chords, Finger among the softer keys, and, then, When hand and organ have grown each to each, Presses the swell and from its bursting pipesA mighty melody that moves the soul, Until it shakes its dusty trammels offAnd soars aloft unbound. 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 techlogy 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.