Excerpt from Evaline, Madelon, and Other Poems The village church peeped o'er the glen, Its walls were green with time and rot, Five hundred years the prayers of men Had sanctified the spot; The birds all loved it, and its grey roof rang The livelong day with the glad song they sang. 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.