Excerpt from Alpha and Omega: A Little Cluster of Easter Blossoms<br><br>Reached for the moon and cried because he couldn't get it. Reached for the candle and cried because he could. First lessons in men suration. Took him fifty or sixty years of hard reading to learn why God put so many beau tiful things out of our longing reach.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.