old man take a look....

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

"The New Religion had crested better than twenty years
before," the REVd Cherrycoke explains, "-- by the 'sixties
we were well into a Descent, that grew more vertiginous with
the days, ever toward some great Trough whose terrible Depth
no one knew." 

"Twas the Holy Ghost, conducting its own Settlement of
America. George the Third might claim it, but 'twas the
Ghost that rul'd, and rules yet, even in Deistic times."

"As to journey west," adds the REVD helpfully, "in the same
sense as the Sun, is to live, raise Children, grow older,
and die, carried along by the Stream of the Day,--whilst to
turn Eastward, is somehow to resist time and age, to work
against the Wind, seek ever the dawn, even, as who can say,
defy Death."