Emphasis Preaching Journal
If you find the poem...
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If you find the poem suggested in the commentary too violent, here is an alternative:
Prose:
A nighttime bandit, known as the Highwayman, was in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, whose name was Bess. In the still of the night and under the cover of darkness, the Highwayman would rendezvous with Bess through an elaborate system of signals. Bess was known to nervously twist her hair in the presence of her gentleman admirer.
Poem:
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas.
Prose:
A nighttime bandit, known as the Highwayman, was in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, whose name was Bess. In the still of the night and under the cover of darkness, the Highwayman would rendezvous with Bess through an elaborate system of signals. Bess was known to nervously twist her hair in the presence of her gentleman admirer.
Poem:
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon the cloudy seas.
