...houses with silver. l6Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light ''There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. '"There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. l9The small...

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...did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire? . . . There (in the realm of the dead) the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster." (3:11,17-18) The...

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...again enjoyed the benefit of the sacrament, which I assisted Dr. Cutler to administer. I preached on, "There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest": as I did again in the afternoon of Mr. Price, though I found my strength sensibly abated. Sun., October...

...with silver. Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the light? There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and...

...and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest, with kings and counsellors of the earth . . . There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. The small and...

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...Whitman may be borrowing here from Job, a poem similarly concerned with the equalizing power of death: "There the wicked cease from troubling; / And there the weary are at rest. / There the prisoners are at ease together; / They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. / The small...