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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.
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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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Earnest the Shuhite spake,
“How long shall these thy words, like eddying winds
Fall empty on the ear?
Doth God pervert
Justice and judgment? If thy way was pure,
Thy supplication from an upright heart
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He would awake and make thy latter end
More blest than thy beginning.
For inquire
Of ancient times, of History's honor'd scroll
And of the grey-hair'd fathers, if our words
Seem light, we who were born but yesterday.
Ask them and they shall teach thee, as the rush,
Or as the flag forsaken of the pod,
So shall the glory of the hypocrite
Fade in its greenness.
Tho' his house may seem
Awhile to flourish, it shall not endure.
Even tho' he grasp it with despairing strength
It shall deceive his trust and pass away,
As fleets the spider's filmy web, Behold
God will not cast away the perfect man
Nor help the evil doer.”
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