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And queer thin legs and shuffling walk and drawling, nasal tonck
Was prompied by the Spirit to make5 this maid his own.

He knew it was tlie Spirit, for he lell. it in iiis breast
As oft before in mecting-dme, and, sure of his request.
Procured the permit in due forttL Oti Fourth- day of that week
He lot Ruth know the message true that he was moved to speak,

“ Ruth, it has been revealeds to me that elite and 1 shall wee,
I have spoken to the meeting and the members all have said
That our union seems a righteous one1, which they will not gainsay
So if convenient to thy view, I’ll wed thee7 next Third-day.”

The cool possession of herself by Friend Sylvan us Moore
Aroused her hot" resentment, which by effort she forbore—
She kr.tw he was a £oodlv man, of simple, childlike mind—
O s f L -1
And checked the word “ Impertinence! " and answered him in kind

a Syharms Moore, do th.ee go hoinolf and wait until T see
The fad that I must be thy wife revealed i:nt.o me."
And thus she loll him there alone, at will to1- ruminate—
Sore puzzled,T at the mysteries of love, frue-will, and fate.
R i c h a r d A . Jack so x.

WHEN SAM’W EL LED THE SINfllN*.

0 1*' course I love the house o1 God,
15lit I don’t feel to bum there
The wav I uster do, afore
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New farutled ways liad come tbere.
Though things are fine:- now a heap,
My heart it keeps a-elingin’
To our big, bare old meetinghouse,
Where Sanrwd led tlie singin'.