Excerpt from Petra: A Prize Poem, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 4, 1845 Sacred associations allow us to regard the land of Edom almost as the birth-place of song - In the desolation with which it has been visited, Petra has shared largely. - Enviable feelings of the Traveller who discovered its forgotten site. - The magnificent scenery around Petra, - recalling the miracle of the Exode. - vvonderful approach to the city - Meditation on its beautiful_ruins. The grandeur - gaiety (suggested by the remains of a theatre) - and flourishing condition of Petra in the time of the Romans, -from which, in common with the rest of the cities of Edom, it fell by some awful but unrecorded visitation.-the early and later state of the surrounding country contrasted. - I ts present barrenness exhibits the fulfilment of the prophecies concerning it; denounced chief] y in consequence of the hostility of the Edomites against the children of Israel. 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.