Excerpt from The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St. Victor, Vol. 3: From the Text of Gautier Length and breadth, Cross blending With height, depth, far-reaching, Thou, four ways extending, Precious truths thus teaching, Savest earth's four quarters. Balm with true health gifted On the Cross-scales lifted, Christ was there extended, As the price expended TO redeem death's charters. 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.