Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Death of Alexander the Great: Newdigate Prize Poem, 1884
There be some themes not ready made to song, Whereon the bard must muse and ponder long, And work with words, and trick the dainty page With all fantastic phrases of the age, To make a poem where was none before And when the words are lost, the thought lives on more. But there are stories in the tale of time Almost too grandly great for paltry rhyme No lyric dream, but drama stem and high Writ with the iron pen of Destiny, Upon whose page God's own handwritings burn, And cry aloud on men to look, and learn. So when our childhood treads the old-world scene 'and plays among the graves of what hath been, Half-careless, by the hand of learning led To search the wreckage of the mighty dead There are some spots where even Childhood's eyes Stand wide and wonder with a big surprise The figures are so large, the hues so bright, They linger long upon the spell-bound sight. 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.
