Excerpt from The Prayer of St. Scholastica: And Other Poems The church-bells softly tolled the while. The Lord for naught did wait. On went the shining figure, on By sentries unobserved So eke the king, with hasting step And strength that never swerved. Familiar lay the road - straight marked, And line of forest curved. 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.