Fragmented Chorus Seals Triumph at Silent Valley
An improvised stage scene unfolds with a lone singer named Sakae Halle delivering a powerful aria. Amid blank stares and muted whispers, the crowd rises in reverent silence as her voice and poised presence command the moment.
The Plowmen in the Summer Field
A reflected ode to farm labor and strength as the narrator watches sturdy farmers plow and thresh at dawn and dusk. It contemplates the meaning of work and the future hope carried by each laboring hand upon the land. The speaker admires the rising line of workers moving to their tasks and feels the alive energy of rural life.
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Some Reflections on Volunteers and History Quips
A Pennsylvania man urges volunteers to march on Panama with picks and shovels, likening it to war and prompting doubts about desertions. Other notes mock reformers, tombstone epitaphs, and Darwinian talk, weaving humor through brief vignettes and historical jests.
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Henry Milford
Kentucky
Henry
Jennie Kinnem
Pittsburg
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