Excerpt from Engedi, or David in the Wilderness, (Mount of Olives): A Sacred Drama So far as was possible, the author has availed himself of Scripture language; and David's words have been taken (almost wholly) from the Psalms generally attributed to him, though of course not in regular order, as it has invariably throughout been the writer's first object to select words adapting themselves to the original music in its continually varying expression, which could not have been done had he taken any one Psalm as his text. How far the author has succeeded he must leave it to others to determine; but, if the result should be the production at our festi vals or elsewhere of this magnificent and highly dramatic work of Beethoven, he will feel amply rewarded for the trouble it has given him to endeavor to do it justice. 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.