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ELIAS

An Epic of the Ages

BY ORSON FERGUSON WHITNEY

Progress eterne! thou goest hand in hand With Life eterne, and naught but death e'er dies.

REVISED AND ANNOTATED EDITION

FOREWORD

"Elias" was begun in the spring of 1900, and was first published in the autumn of 1904, when an edition de luxe, limited to one hundred and fifty copies, and two less pretentious editions, were subscribed for by friends of the author. He was hardly a party to the project, the initial step being taken without his knowledge. Prior to that time he had read the poem to select gatherings in private homes and in two of the leading church schools, but had no thought of printing it so early, until solicited by a committee of prominent citizens to allow them to undertake, in his behalf, its publication.