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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...k on the wall and wondered if I had grown taller. Galilee A storm. The lake. Two fishermen drowned. Tents blown over. Next day as I bury the dead... ...g in a borrowed tent; James and Mark are asleep inside. Yesterday, on the lake shore, I was circled by a crowd. I talked to them till late. I wish t... ... me as I lay in my tent. The wind was churning leaves and I walked to the lake to watch the waves. I felt cold but pulled my cloak around me and con... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ...ating death. LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 545 FORT SUMTER FALLEN. Commander Anderson Surren- ders. April 14, 1861, Fort Sumter, located in the harbor o... ...equences of such an official directive. Think of Libby Prison, consider Andersonville. They are collective atrocities. Was it two years ago a ma... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ...lanta? How long does a city burn? Some say that Rome is still burning. Andersonville—a prison... Libby—a prison. Thousands of men are incarcer- at... ...ok of poetry. On my last visit I bought Pope’s Essay on Man. I noticed a British copy bound in morocco. At the Potomac I have acquired some Emerson...

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