Poem by Anonymous

Written in the Waiting-Room at the Office of the Secretary of the State

In sore afflictions sent by God’s commands, 
In patience Job the great example stands; 
But in these days a trial more severe 
Had been Job’s lot, if God had sent him here. 

1. Ettrick Banks
2. Lord Strafford’s Meditations in the Tower
3. The Enchanted Island
4. The Banks o’ Glaizart
5. Barthram’s Dirge

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