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Des Moines County, Iowa Anti-Slavery Society minutes and declarations, 1844-1845
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Instability of Earthly Things By this we mean things of an inconstant nature and unsteady. Look at the moon which is incessantly varying either in her aspect or her changes. Sometimes she looks full upon us and her visage is all lustre, Sometimes she appears in a profile and shows us only half her enlightened face. Often a radient crescent but just adorns her brow. Soon it dwindles into a slender [streak?] till at length all her beauty vanihses, and she becomes a beamless orb. Sometimes she rises with the descending day, and begins her procession with adoring multitudes Ere long she defers her progress, [illegible] the midnight watches, and steals unobserved upon the sleeping world Sometimes she just enters the edges of the western horizon and drops us an unceremonious visit After awhile she sets on her nightly tour from the oposite regions of the east and traverses the whole hemisphere, in a [word?]
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Instability of Earthly Things By this we mean things of an inconstant nature and unsteady. Look at the moon which is incessantly varying either in her aspect or her changes. Sometimes she looks full upon us and her visage is all lustre, Sometimes she appears in a profile and shows us only half her enlightened face. Often a radient crescent but just adorns her brow. Soon it dwindles into a slender [streak?] till at length all her beauty vanihses, and she becomes a beamless orb. Sometimes she rises with the descending day, and begins her procession with adoring multitudes Ere long she defers her progress, [illegible] the midnight watches, and steals unobserved upon the sleeping world Sometimes she just enters the edges of the western horizon and drops us an unceremonious visit After awhile she sets on her nightly tour from the oposite regions of the east and traverses the whole hemisphere, in a [word?]
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