Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales and Legends in Verse Again was heard the pleading cry, the little hand was raised, And feelings all unknown before came o'er him as he gazed, And he seemed to have gained a heart of flesh instead of a heart of stone, As he took the child from the breast of the dead, and laid it in his own, And closed it from the cold, and sought to soothe its moaning pain. 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.