Vergilius - A Tale of the Coming of Christ

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Vergilius, by Irving BachellerThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of ChristAuthor: Irving BachellerRelease Date: August 8, 2005 [EBook #16491]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VERGILIUS ***Produced by Al HainesVergiliusA Tale of the Coming of ChristByIrving BachellerAuthor of"Eben Holden" "D'ri and I" "Darrel of the Blessed Isles"New York and LondonHarper & Brothers Publishers1904Copyright, 1904, by IRVING BACHELLER.All rights reserved.Published August, 1904.VergiliusA Tale of the Coming of ChristCHAPTER 1Rome had passed the summits and stood looking into the dark valley of fourteen hundred years. Behind her the graves ofCaesar and Sallust and Cicero and Catullus and Vergil and Horace; before her centuries of madness and treadingdown; round about her a multitude sickening of luxury, their houses filled with spoil, their mouths with folly, their souls withdiscontent; above her only mystery and silence; in her train, philosophers questioning if it were not better for a man hadhe never been born—deeming life a misfortune and extinction the only happiness; poets singing no more of "pleasantriesand trifles," but seeking favor with poor obscenities ...