Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

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Published: 2015-07-08

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9781330997987

Excerpt from German-English Lyrics Bethlehem and Golgotha. "Er ist in Bethlehem geboren." In Bethlehem, God's own begotten Saw life, to bring the life to light; At Golgotha, deed unforgotten! By death for us, He broke death's might. The lands, the evening sun adorning, I left, to greet the lands of morning, But greater sights I nowhere saw, Than Bethlehem and Golgotha. Where are the boasted wonders seven, The old world had collected there? With wisdom that descends from Heaven, How can the pride of earth compare? From land to land all lands descrying, I saw them in their ruins lying! In grandeur still, without a flaw, Stood Bethlehem and Golgotha. Away, ye pyramids Egyptian, Ye are but gloomy mountain-tombs, Men grope in vain for life's inscription, Through all your dark and solemn rooms: Ye sphinxes, in colossal splendor, Your lips the riddle cannot render: What is man's life, what is life's law, As Bethlehem and Golgotha. Earth's paradise with summer glowing, Thou rose-clad city of Shiraz, Ye groves of palm, with spices flowing, All Nature's wealth, that India has, 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.