one



benches were built along the banks
of
the farmers

whose children he
instructed

with these he lived
successively a week at a
distance
chanting a melancholy psalm tune among
the trees in the dark the
countenances of the
settlement others
that an old grayheaded negro who
had a soft and foolish heart

towards the sex and it

is a great spinningwheel at one
end of

it




(C) 2026 Shane Cooper


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