Francis MacDonald Journal * Facsimile and Transcription
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Sabbath 22nd Oct. 1848 < rain > Two or three times when I felt sad I read part of Miss Barland's poems.104 {S}ometimes I would read them all ere I 5 the book. {A}t other times they would waken up recollections, pleasing recol- lections of the past, and ever call to mind something about you. There is among her poems one entitled 10 “Epistle to a very nice one, read it. Every night I see “the theonson's phos- phorescent brightness play'd \\ Upon the sparkling waters,”106 but on Friday 15 night it beat all conception. {T}o look at the water one would im- agine the ocean to a vast sheet of fiery flame. It was grand, yesterday morning, swiftly flew 20 over the waves the flying-fish, and made a leap into the billowy surge.107 I saw about a dozen, but cannot say they “flew over the decks,” altho[ugh] [End of Page 67]
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