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Excerpt from The Violet Crown: And Songs of England
Wherefore the city of the violet crown P One asked me, as the April sun went down Behind the shadows of the Persian's mound, The fretted crags of Salamis. Look round, And see the question answered For we were Upon the summit of that battled square, The rock of ruin, in whose fallen shrine The world still worships What it deems divine, The maiden fane, that yet may boast the birth Of half the immortalities of earth. 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.
