Excerpt from Centuries Ago: Songs of BethlehemImpatient, urged his Chariot's flight, From lordly revel rolling home Triumphal arches, gleaming, swell His breast with thoughts of boundless sway; What reeked the Roman what befell A paltry province far away, In the solemn midnight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.