· THE FORERUNNER · HIS PARABLES AND POEMS
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Gibran, Kahlil
THE FORERUNNER HIS PARABLES AND POEMS
BOOKS BY KAHLIL GIBRAN
“He is the William Blake of the twentieth century.” —AUGUSTE RODIN.
THE MADMAN (1918)
[With three original drawings by the author.]
“His is an irresistible vigor and clarity of thought and feeling, together with a power of simple picturing, which makes it unforgettable. It is the voice and genius of the Arabic people.”—The New York Evening Post.
“Never have I read anything like it, never has a little book brought me so deep and passionate a pleasure. He has breathed the spirit of the East on our cold and indifferent souls; and I, for one, feel almost as if I had been suffocated by the breath of an intense beauty.”—The Liberator.
TWENTY DRAWINGS (1919)
[With an Introductory Essay by Alice Raphael.]
“It is Rodin that comes instantly to mind as a comparison. He has sensed a relation between man and the universe, and, with his astounding technique, is able to make us sense it too. Mr. Knopf is entitled to our gratitude.”—Detroit Journal.
These may be had at all bookshops or from the publisher
ALFRED A. KNOPF 220 West Forty-Second Street New York
BY KAHLIL GIBRAN NEW YORK ALFRED · A · KNOPF MCMXX COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY KAHLIL GIBRAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
God’s Fool 9
Love 15
The King-Hermit 17
The Lion’s Daughter 22
Tyranny 26
The Saint 27
The Plutocrat 29
The Greater Self 30
War and the Small Nations 32
Critics 33
Poets 35
The Weather-cock 37
The King of Aradus 38
Out of My Deeper Heart 39
Dynasties 41
Knowledge and Half-Knowledge 44
“Said a Sheet of Snow-White Paper....” 46
The Scholar and the Poet 47
Values 50
Other Seas 51
Repentance 52
The Dying Man and the Vulture 53
Beyond My Solitude 55
The Last Watch 57
THE FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS VOLUME ARE RE- PRODUCED FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR
You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon.