Excerpt from Giordano: A Tragedy To rouse each slumbering passion of the breast, Bid cowering guilt his hideous form detest, Add grace to goodness, energy to truth, Ardour to age, and thoughtfulness to youth, With guileless mirth the ills of life t' assuage, For these did W'isdom first erect the Stage. There, breathless fender, with dilated eyes, Saw the pale shades of former ages rise - s Caught from the hero's glance a kindred glow, Or mourned with real tears dissembled wo With shuddering awe, heard mad Ambition own The crimes that raised him to his tottering throne; And learned that power, achieved by guilty deed, Decks with false glare the head it dooms to bleed As the red flames which burning domes illume, mqe'whstttihe, and whilst-they light, consume, True to the purpose of the scenic page, An untried bard this night employs the stage; From no wild tale of necromantic sprite He draws the scene, to charm your dazzled sight, But boldly copies nature's mazy chart Of vice and virtue, to instruct the heart. 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.