Excerpt from A New Messiah<br><br>The trees whined drearily as the breeze in creased and the withered foliage came fluttering down, sometimes in single twirling spots of yellow, bronze, or brown; sometimes tumul tuously when the Angel of Death that was in the frosty air breathed on it as he passed. Many times a belated chestnut frond would let go its grip, and hurtle awkwardly across the twilight sky, like a bat out for his first flight, and blinded by the last of the evening afterglow. And always the wind droned most lonesomely through the waving branches aloft, barer by every blast, and, swirling round the great trunks beneath, rustled the dying leaves.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.