I keep forgetting that these were written over a hundred years ago, but so much of it is still relevant.

In this case, “the minister” talks the whole time.

If that came across negatively, I didn’t mean for it to.

It’s simply relevant. That’s all I’m getting at.

You’ll have to decide for yourself. When you read this 521 page book of poems.

I’m on page 59…

I’ll probably still be reading it when I retire to the Tennessee mountains, where

…we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.