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Faith.—Becalmed at sea, a man refreshes himself by swimming round the ship.—A little child seeing him deaf and dumb boy is looking over the[no handwritten text supplied here] his younger brother and the swimmer, lazily floating lazily on his back, smiles and beckons with his head for the babe to come.—
Without [illegible] waiting a moment the young child, laughing and clucking springs into the
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Death Song
Joy Joy! O full of Joy
On the sea-shore Away becalmed at sea one day
I saw a babe, laughing kicking, &c &c
And as a swimmer passed floated idly in the waves, he called the child.—Laughing it sprang, and there
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Black Bob and the young girl
When the passengers ship strikes, who thinks of a gold watch or earrings?—
When the San Francisco was wrecked, the most valuable gjewelry lay about the cabin unnoticed on the floor
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sea, and as he rises to the surface feels no fear but laughs and though he sink and drown he feels it not for the man is with him there
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The Death, Disaster, and temptation, are the examiners and measurers of ^a man.—They take his weight and density; and thenceforward he can be labeled or stamped at so much value.
Agitation is the test of the goodness and solidness of all politics and laws and institutions [illegible] and religions.—If they cannot stand it, there is no life genuine life in them, and shall die.
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Where others see some a dolt, a clown, in rags ^slave a pariah an emptier of privies.... the Poet beholds what shall one day be, when the days of the soul are accomplished ^shall be be a mate for the greatest gods the peer of god.
Where others are scornfully silent at some one steerage passenger from a foreign land, or black ^or emptier of privies the poet says, "Good day, mMy brother! good day!"
And to the great king "How are you friend?"
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Hav You have timidly waded close to the shore, wading holding a board
Come with me, I and that I learn teach you that you be a bold swimmer, and leap from the [no handwritten text supplied here] into the open ^plain sou unsounded sea, and come up, and laugh shout, and laughingly shake the water from your hair.—
The poet is a recruiter
He goes forth beating the drum.—O, who will not join his troop?
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The boat starts out from her ship, and finds a vast cake of ice reaching from one shore to the other. Five times she drives into it, and five times recoils and has to put back.—The sixth time she plunges far desperately on, the ice opens a crack as she advances, and so makes a chance for her just the very way she most wants to go.—
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When a grand and melodious thought is taken told to men for the first time, in ^down and within their hearts ^they each one says in it down and within, That music! those large and exquisite passages! where have I heard them before?
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a noble soul shows off often illustrates itself in what the world rates as trivial; the grandeur and beauty of the spirit making the commonest action more luminous than the sun.—I knew of a poor woman, in a little farm house in the country, who took a pair of ^her home-knit stockings and exchanged them at the store for tea.—Coming home she stopped at her nearest neighbor's gate, and called to her that she had tea, ^something good; and the neighbor [illegible] must fetch out a cup and go
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half halves; for both loved tea, and had no money, and were without for a some days, and had no money.—
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Front windows on first floor,—lights 13 x 17—Window five lights high—
A sash of two lights across top—The other eight lights made in two door-sides, hung each with hinges