1796 JOSEPH VAILL. Noah's Flood. A Poem in Two Parts. Rare Early American Moral Verse. Hymns de Chateaubriand

de Chateaubriand

Wales in 1654

who by patient continuance in well doing

is as follows:

and not those of other men and communities

1796 JOSEPH VAILL. Noah's Flood. A Poem in Two Parts. Rare Early American Moral Verse. Hymns de ChateaubriandA very scarce series of works in verse by Connecticut divine, Rev. Joseph Vaill. The first, one of the most ambitious poetic works of the late 18th century in America, contains a virtual early Old Testamant history in verse, In the beginning, from chaotic night, God by his powerful voice, call'd forth the light, . . . . . . They pluck'd, they ate, they disobeying fell, Which op'd the dreadful gates to death and hell! . . . . . . Polluted children soon