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...d by the eternal truth 
Confess'd its origin and hail'd its rise, 
Fresh as a star from Judah's sacred line. 
This, Amos' son touch'd with seraphic fire 
In after times beheld. He saw it beam 
From Judah's royal tribe; he saw it shine 
O'er Judah's happy land, and bade the hills, 
The rocky hills and barren vallies smile, 
The desert blossom and the wilds rejoice. 


This is that light which purifies the soul, 
From mist obscure, of envy, hate, and pride; 
Bids lo...Read more of this...

...at bright coal 
Snatch'd from the altar of seraphic fire, 
Which touch'd Isaiah's lips, or if the spirit 
Of Jeremy and Amos, prophets old, 
Should fire the breast; but yet I call the muse 
And what we can will do. I see, I see 
A thousand kingdoms rais'd, cities and men 
Num'rous as sand upon the ocean shore; 
Th' Ohio then shall glide by many a town 
Of note: and where the Missisippi stream 
By forests shaded now runs weeping on 
Nations shall grow and states not less i...Read more of this...

...Not character, not fortitude, not patience
Were mine, the which the village thought I had
In bearing with my wife, while preaching on,
Doing the work God chose for me.
I loathed her as a termagant, as a wanton.
I knew of her adulteries, every one.
But even so, if I divorced the woman
I must forsake the ministry.
Therefore to do God's work a...Read more of this...

...ating light 
Whereof there is not either day or night, 
And shared with us the glamour of the Word 
That fell once upon Amos to record
For men at ease in Zion, when the sight 
Of ills obscured aggrieved him and the might 
Of Hamath was a warning of the Lord. 

Assured somehow that he would make us wise, 
Our pleasure was to wait; and our surprise
Was hard when we confessed the dry return 
Of his regret. For we were still to learn 
That earth has not a school where we ...Read more of this...

...Farfacio.

Cernis ut ingenti distinguant limite campum
Montis Amos clivi Bilboreique juga!
Ille stat indomitus turritis undisque saxis:
Cingit huic laetum Fraximus alta Caput.
Illi petra minax rigidis cervicibus horret:
Huic quatiunt viridis lenia colla jubas.
Fulcit Atlanteo Rupes ea vertice coelos:
Collis at hic humeros subjicit Herculeos.
Hic ceu carceribus visum sylvaque coercet:
Ille Oculos alter dum q...Read more of this...

...ailors of his Spirit. 

Let Helon rejoice with the Woodpecker -- the Lord encourage the propagation of trees! 

Let Amos rejoice with the Coote -- prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 

Let Ephah rejoice with Buprestis, the Lord endue us with temperance and humanity, till every cow have her mate! 

Let Sarah rejoice with the Redwing, whose harvest is in the frost and snow. 

Let Rebekah rejoice with Iynx, who holds his head on one side to deceive the adversary. ...Read more of this...

...house of Conworth rejoice with Nenuphar a kind of Water Lily. 

Let Ransom, house of Ransom rejoice with Isidos Plocamos a sea shrub of the Coral kind, or rather like Coral. 

Let Ponder, house of Ponder rejoice with Polion an herb, whose leaves are white in the morning, purple at noon, and blue in the evening. 

Let Woodward, house of Woodward rejoice with Nerium the Rose-Laurel -- God make the professorship of fossils in Cambridge a useful thing. 

Let Spinc...Read more of this...

...r>
That was the son lost
when the schooner foundered.

He took to drink. Yes.
She went to the bad.
When Amos began to pray
even in the store and
finally the family had
to put him away.

"Yes . . ." that peculiar
affirmative. "Yes . . ."
A sharp, indrawn breath,
half groan, half acceptance,
that means "Life's like that.
We know it (also death)."

Talking the way they talked 
in the old featherbed,
peacefully, on and on,
d...Read more of this...

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