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The man of Uz, and other poems

Sigourney, L. H. (1791-1865)

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THE MAN OF UZ.
  
PREFACE.
  
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THE RURAL LIFE IN NEW-ENGLAND.
  
INTRODUCTION.
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CANTO FIRST.
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CANTO SECOND.
 3. 
CANTO THIRD.
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IN MEMORIAM.
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1859
  
REV. DR. T. M. COOLEY,
  
MADAM OLIVIA PHELPS,
  
MARTHA AGNES BONNER,
  
MADAM WHITING,
  
DENISON OLMSTED, LL. D.,
  
HERBERT FOSS,
  
MRS. CHARLES N. CADWALLADER,
  
REV. DR. JAMES W. ALEXANDER,
  
MRS. JOSEPH MORGAN,
  
MISS ALICE BECKWITH,
  
MARY SHIPMAN DEMING.
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1860
  
REV. DR. F. W. HATCH,
  
MRS. PAYNE,
  
MRS. MARY MILDENSTEIN ROBERTSON,
  
MADAM WILLIAMS,
  
SAMUEL G. OGDEN, ESQ.,
  
MR. GEORGE BEACH,
  
MISS MARGARET C. BROWN,
  
MISS FRANCES WYMAN TRACY,
  
DEACON NORMAND SMITH,
  
MRS. HELEN TYLER BEACH,
  
MRS. ELIZABETH HARRIS,
  
MISS ANNA M. SEYMOUR,
  
CALEB HAZEN TALCOTT,
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1861
  
MISS JANE PENELOPE WHITING,
  
MISS ANNA FREEMAN,
  
MADAM POND,
  
ANNIE SEYMOUR ROBINSON,
  
MRS. GEORGIANA IVES COMSTOCK,
  
WENTWORTH ALEXANDER,
  
MRS. HARVEY SEYMOUR,
  
MRS. FREDERICK TYLER,
  
MISS LAURA KINGSBURY,
  
GOVERNOR JOSEPH TRUMBULL,
  
MRS. EMILY ELLSWORTH,
  
REV. STEPHEN JEWITT, D. D.,
  
MISS DELIA WOODRUFF GODDING,
  
MISS SARA K. TAYLOR,
  
MR. JOHN WARBURTON,
  
REV. HENRY ALBERTSON POST,
  
MISS CAROLINE L. GRIFFIN,
  
MR. NORMAND BURR,
  
HON. THOMAS S. WILLIAMS,
  
COLONEL H. L. MILLER,
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1862
  
COLONEL SAMUEL COLT,
  
MADAM HANNAH LATHROP,
  
HENRIETTA SELDEN COLT,
  
THE LITTLE BROTHERS.
  
MR. DAVID F. ROBINSON,
  
MR. SAMUEL TUDOR,
  
HENRY HOWARD COMSTOCK,
  
REV. DR. DAVID SMITH,
  
MISS EMILY B. PARISH,
  
HARRIET ALLEN ELY,
  
MISS CATHARINE BALL,
  
MRS. MORRIS COLLINS,
  
MRS. MARGARET WALBRIDGE,
  
THE BROTHERS.
  
HON. PHILLIP RIPLEY,
  
RICHARD ELY COLLINS,
  
MISS ELIZABETH BRINLEY,
  
MR. JOHN A. TAINTOR,

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True independence was his, earth and sky being his bankers,
Bills drawn on them, endorsed by toil were never protested.
Bathed in vernal dews was his glistening plough-share,
Birds, newly-returned, the merry nest-builders, bade him good morrow,
Keenly wrought his scythe in summer, where fell the odorous clover,
Clear was his song at autumn-husking amid piles of golden corn.
Winter saw him battling the drifted snows, with his oxen,
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Bearing to the neighboring town, fuel that gladden'd the hearth-stone.
Deep in undisturbed beds then slept the dark-featured anthracite,
Steam not having armed itself to exterminate the groves,
Lavishly offering them as a holocaust to winged horses of iron,
Like Moloch, cruel god, dooming the beautiful to the flame.
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