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Excerpt from Our Mabel: Or Crests Upon the Waves of Thought The universal book Of life; its pages turn each day and hour. Leaf by leaf is slowly Opening, for the ages to discover the woven stories from the past's deep urns, with glimpses here and there of the futures onward tending. The god of day points his finger to the stories told, and lessons learned, or all unheeded in the daily leaf he turns, and all the lesser gods of day or night their pages too must turn, and truthfully portray their passage through the ight of years. Earth's volume is of the series too, that forms the universal book, her stories, her histories of conquests and defeats, her throbbings, her sympathies and tears, her travails of birth and bitterness Of death, are the epitomized stories or histories of the larger book, an abridgment, forsooth, whose perusal will take an eternity for full comprehension. 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.