Excerpt from Achmet's Feast, and Other Poems Thy smile to me was hope; thy shrine My worship; from those lips of thine, First did I hear the notes of love, Speak to me of a God above. And in my simple Childhood's prayer, Sweet mother, kneeling at thy chair, My lisping voice would faltering raise, The infant's fluttering notes of praise. Who told thy wondering child of death And the great Lord of Nazareth, Who suffered on the cross, to save The soul of man beyond the grave? I listen'd, and my little brain, Reverberated thy words again. I could not think that smiling eye, That kindly loving face could die, And every glowing feature set Clammy and cold; I knew not yet. 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.