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Merriwether, we were never interested in horizons. I had seen the striped colors of a vibrant red and orange sun setting over mountains back in the East when things were small and complicated. Jefferson told us to be agents of the new government promoting peace, trade. Hands and arms on the dappled pirogue claimed difference with the national interest. We left St. Louis with more than these meager men. You keep to your botany and I'll reserve my solitude.

Adieu mes rêves illusoires ! Berceau de ma stupidité d'antan   Où se sont tues les progénitures les plus éclairées Bâillonnées par des couffins faisandés. Aux alentours du Lac de mon enfance Où nagent conjointement mépris et dégoûts Je m'approche des derniers oliviers sans arômes Et des larmes sans éclats coulent de nouveau. Si seulement, Si seulement mon âme pouvait chanter comme les vôtres !

Preservation Pairing: Alexander Hamilton/John Laurens Warnings: Some angst 'If my father could only see the army…' John Laurens paused to observe the assorted groups of soldiers hovering around each other for warmth as the cold breezed through Valley Forge, leaving men shivering in their tattered uniforms and inadequate blankets. 'If Congress could see the army, see the disease and famine, the provision wagons would arrive quicker than we could request them.' Beside him, Alexander Hamilton observed, 'As long as Congress must beg from the states, it makes no difference whether provisions are detained for two days or two weeks, for the

The corn rows are ripe with ochre and ashes. Countless crows shake the field with their calls while laying waste to the crop in a sharp-billed early harvest. Months before they saved farmers the labor of plucking grubs from the new growth, but country men are quick to forget favors, so Elijah, the planter's youngest son, stands beside me, the both of us armed for our own harvest. We have different aims: Elijah wants to plump pot pies with gristle, and I wish to pin wings forever on the page. I know the art isn't the animal, and their shapes will come out crooked and nefarious, their feathers robbed of the coppery hue of su