Excerpt from Uncle Amos and His Christmas Gifts And twinkling through the gloom about The misty city lights shone out; Some from the homes where love and peace Would help discomfort quickly cease; Some from the homes where hand in hand Grim poverty and pain would stand; And some, alas! From haunts where men Forged for their woes new chains again. Amid the crowd that jostled by. 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.