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William Dixon Diary, 1854-1878

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To from the tack and raise thy nobler part

To mend the mortals and to warm thy hart

To trace the genarle source me nature call

And prove the god of nature friend of all

Heavy fore this his mental landscape drew

And sketch d the whole creation out to vew

Th enamelled bloom and variegated flower

Whose crimson changes with the changing hour

The humble shrub whose fragrance sents the morning

With humble buds disclosing to the erly dawn

The oaks that grace briteannia s mountain side

And spicy libor superior pride {gaming like fung}

All loudly sovreign excellence proclame

And animated worlds confess the name {CJ forman}

The asure fields that form the extended sky

Amos and Bildan

A man visited only his friend Bildad and be hold he found him suporting this grey hed upon both his hands and weeping bitterly and Amos said to his friends why weepest thou thus Bad raised his hand and ponted to a bed lay the dead body of a youth the only sone of bildad who had died of a contagious disease then said blind Behold there lies my hope a prey to coruption Thy hope answered Amos mournfully but will not the fath of my friend soothe and conquer his grief then answerd Bildad Alas my fath is faint and week since my love and hope have been so crully disppointed Have I not carfully and diligently watched over the lovely disposition of my body have I not cultivated and fosterd his {illegible} powers and now when my work was so nerly accomplished

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