After Many Years (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Beyond the diamond's glittering flash, or reddest gold sequin, Shines out to-day the deathless name of great Rembrandt van Rhyn.

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Excerpt from After Many Years

The "Night Watch" at Amsterdam.

Proud is the city of Amsterdam, high fenced from the angry sea,
With its towering masts, and heaped-up wealth, hard by the Zuyder Zee.

For Nature's frown could not beat down the burghers stout and true
Who held the town for centuries, while loud war's tocsin blew.

And naught could fright the men of might who curbed the swelling main;
They fought against the foreign foe, and humbled haughty Spain!

Here the stout Dutchmen long have kept the trust with bosoms bold,
And fathers guarded for their sons the city's keys to hold.

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.