Hendricks, Nancy

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RevelationThe sun has gone just now, and pulled his piercing beamsfrom o'er the fields,The light that stays behind is humble in reflection of its fires.There lingers here a lessening glow without a source thatfades unseen,And close above the gravel roads and farms a haze autumnalrises.No sound intrudes, for those the ear can sense belong ineffably,And even these are silence sounds - the far-off tinklinz of alead cow's be ll.: bThe rustling of the horse's hay, the beat of wings to chickenroost -All these are only part of this great overwhelming calm ofnature's being.I stand, and hold a can of feed,And think some Power has just decreedThat I should look on this land,From which the raucous world is banned,And feel in this one swift releaseThe awesome majesty of peace.-Nancy Hendricks:j:§:j: :j:§:j:A Pioneer HomeLois Esther LittlerSeveral clues indicated that a house was there before itbecame visible to the approaching visitor, for pioneerhomes were located, not because of nearness to a road, butbecause of proximity to a spring and a stream; the former savedtime and labor in digging a well for the household and the latterpromised a supply of water for the livestock. It nestled, thishome of my great-grandparents, half-secluded among hugetrees and smaller shrubs on the crown of a knoll overlookinga meandering stream. As one followed the short stretch ofroad between the school building and the Quaker meeting-house, a winding lane diverged to the left where the highwayand the drive to the meetinghouse met. The lane paralleledthe south boundary of the meetinghouse grounds, and at its

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