Excerpt from St. Augustine at Ostia: Oxford Sacred Poem O after leagues of dust and sweltering air Like heaven to tired souls this garden green. How its soft balm all trouble doth repair, Bathed in the shadowy stillness of the scene The shrunken mind grows to her wonted measure. 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.