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I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
---Romans 16:22

The wages that I earned from common work
put food upon my Christian family's table;
and gave me, also, opportunity
to serve our church in Corinth as its clerk---
and that provided far more delectation
than laboring to sell some man's cheap cable
or listening to customers complain
that what they want cannot be done right now.
But their conniptions do not make me scowl,
nor can their uncouth temperament profane
the blessing that provides my inspiration---
because this has been raised up spiritually.
Once, while our Brother Paul stayed in the home
of Gaius, he dispatched a letter to
the brethren called to be Christ's saints in Rome,
and I wrote down the words at his dictation.
His words ascend beyond the aggravation
of this world, and its carnal retinue.
Upon his words the troubled heart may shore
its fragments; and the weighted soul can soar,
above its burdens, right to Heaven's door.

Starward

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