Excerpt from The Inner Life: Hymns on the Imitation of Christ by Thomas A'kempis These verses are intended as a contribution to wards the supply of this need. They do not profess to be a transcript in metre of the words we have all loved so long, nor even a rhythmical paraphrase of separate passages; but rather strains, the keynote of which was struck long ago by the teacher who, in the deep retirement of his saintly life, had learnt to know the hidden things of God and the mysteries of the human 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.