Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Peter the Great
Have I dared, then, at last, to exchange glances With that great bronze giant, who, so the poets say, 'steps down, on twilight nights, from his granite pedestal, hard by the Neva river-bank, and rides through the sleeping City - triumphant even in death? Have I indeed - oh, mighty ghost' who, for well-nigh two hundred years, like some terrible and familiar demon, hauntest the places hou didst know in life, -have I, in good truth, happened on the magic formula which brings back speech to phantoms, and builds life up around them, out of the dust of bygone days?
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