Henry Hanby Hay
Published: 2017-12-25
Total Pages: 140
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Excerpt from Created Gold and Other Poems T dawn there came a roar, and palace proud Across the city to the minster bowed. The soldiers roused and ran, ran priest and clown, The stout old house beside the church was down, The massy walls were gapped, the roof was gone, The halted mob cry. As the priests press on, Devil and sorcerer The ill words grow; For all the people in the city know The foreign scholar, thin, and lank, and spent, Though seldom up and down the streets he went And when he came, the women raised a jeer, And pointed at him. When they saw him peer From the barred windows, children shrank away. Now buried 'neath the ruined house he lay. 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.