Part I, Part II and Part III of this series may be found in preceding issues of the Ledger.
After the initial flurry of visions described in the late 1838 portions of his diary, Ezra Small seemed to lose interest in keeping his chronicle--or the experiences may have simply stopped for a period of time. The possibility also exists that the badly decomposed document is missing pages that are yet to be found.
Whatever the case, Small picks up his cryptic writing again with renewed vigor in February 1839, expressing his thoughts in the same tautly worded three-line passages as before but cramming even more of them on a page, as if afraid to run out of paper or forget the verses before committing them to writing.
The strings of random letters and symbols are lengthier in this segment as well, and a new element is introduced--and just as quickly abandoned, evidently: giant letters from edge to edge on three successive pages, obliterating some of the smaller lettering. It is impossible to determine what Small had in mind here, as Z, O and D are the only letters he got to. One can only speculate that "zodiac" was the word he was writing, for some reason.
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It's a long excursion
Not a brief conversion
You should remember that
She was only there
In the painter's brushstrokes
Yet she shared in his greatness
