Winfrid: Afterwards Called Boniface; A. D. 680-775

Excerpt from Winfrid: Afterwards Called Boniface; A. D. 680-775 A Day of gloom; first showers, then pouring rain; A narrow boat, adown the turbid stream That eats the crumbling banks of Upper Rhein, By vapour and the whirling current borne, From Basel; neither hill nor tower to break The weary length; but ever and anon Harsh gratings of the iron-plated keel On shallows, hardly passing: till at eve The glorious Sun brake out beneath the gloom, And burnish'd the broad flood, and touch'd with gold The minster towers and pinnacles of Speyer. 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.