Excerpt from Chimes and Rhymes: Romantic Tales of Bromsgrove Bells and Bromsgrove Nails; With Other Verses on Local Themes A priest should daily pray That she and her husband, freed from sin, With all christen soules, ' and her children, Might wend to heaven for aye. But the rents are lost, and no priest has said For centuries past a mass for the dead, And modern clerics now declare, With a belief most people share, That heaven heeds no purchased prayer. 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.