Excerpt from Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy, in Five Acts Where is the man, who, as his thoughts survey The days of Roman grandeur past away, Whose memory loves in reverence to dwell O'er minds that held the world within their spell Calls up the mighty shadows from the tomb, Whose names give immortality to Rome But feels his mind in Virtue's scale ascend, Improved as patriot; husband, father, friend? 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.