Excerpt from The Bells of Capistrano: A Romance of the California Missions Go there by moonlight, almost any season, There is no winter in that golden climate, Where blooms the rose in April or December. There by the waters of the great Pacific, Its back upon the mountain and the desert, Stands the old ruin, silent in the moonlight. Climb to some eminence and look about you, Look when the moon is highest in the heavens, And falls full on the mission's great quadrangle, Illuminating all the dream-like, slender arches; Each column lights, and all the corridors. 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.