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Updated: May 4, 2025

He gives most vivid illustrations of the wasting, wearing process of disease-for instance, what a contrast is the picture we have of him when he was "ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to," and the one he paints of himself in after years, when he says, "I may tell all my bones. they look and stare upon me; my days are like a, shadow that declineth, and I am withered like grass.

E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss - Stepping Heavenward