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Postcard from France
A postcard from my 2nd Great Uncle’s collection which he brought back from France. The color picture is the google street view of the same location. “MONTIGNY-le-ROI – Hotel de Ville et la Voie”. On the back of this postcard is written: “Our Hdqur were just opposite the school house…
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The Seventh Trumpet, A Roundel
A roundel based on Revelation 11:15-19 At the trumpet’s call, all creatures cry, And before their King the people fall Living to praise nevermore to die At the trumpet’s call. With thanks and praise to the Lord of All: The Almighty reigns from earth to sky– Lifts up the meek,…
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The Seven Trumpets: The Last
The Seven Trumpets: Revelation 10:3-11-19 Part Three: The Last The leonine roar sounds seven secret thunders Before the world’s city shines the angel of Day His thundering plan is shrouded in wonders But it comes now, nothing waiting, no delay He sends to the world his witnesses to unlock The…
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The Seven Trumpets: The fifth and sixth
The Seven Trumpets 2: Revelation 9:1-10:3 Next blows the trumpet to open the dungeon From its bottomless depths it calls forth The consumers of people, Apollyon’s legion: Locusts stinging with living death. Now comes the Sixth, his trumpet to blow To release the bound chaos at earth’s corners: A mounted…
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The Seven Trumpets: The First Four
Continuing in Revelation with the first of three sonnets on the Seven Trumpets. First in a three part series The Seven Trumpets: Revelation 8:2-13 Hurled earthward, the censer of prayer Mingled with embers from the altar above Traces its catapult arc into the World’s air Over its ramparts with a…
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