Job’s Comforters George Walter Thornbury Thornbury, George Walter Metadata research and editing DVPP Project Team Fralick Kaitlyn University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project Victoria, BC, Canada

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 Poet attribution: the Chambers’s Journal ledger entry lists the author as W. Thornbury, with a payment of 10s 6d (NLS Dep 341/310). (AC) Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal 4 7 355 672 The torrent came swirling the drowning man, text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 100%; letter-spacing: 0.25em; margin-bottom: 0.25em; word-spacing: 0.2em; margin-left: 3.5em; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 1em; font-variant: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.05em; letter-spacing: 0em; display: none; display: inline; display: block; font-size: 1rem; width: 28em; CSS remediation, verified. Created pom_7274_incid_poem rendition to reset font-sizes. Added useful rendition elements in anticipation of CSS reworking. Marking specific renditions as incidental. Handle cases of incidental titles, where head elements have child elements with style attributes. Extracted small-caps style into rendition element using XSLT. Re-organized change elements in descending date order. Assigned dominant rhyme-scheme value to poem div using automated XSLT. Removed catRef with target="dvpp:illustrationNone", now obsolete. Set status to 'proofed'. Added catRef. Moved long strings of CSS to the tagsDecl.
Job’s Comforters. The torrent came swirling the drowning man, Rider and horse ; and the fish spoke thus, Cried the grayling and the salmon-trout : ‘ Why don’t you swim like us ?’ Down lightning-struck the aeronaut fell, Down through a mile of sky, Cried the eaglets and the eagle king : ‘ Creature, why can’t you fly ?’ The mole came where the dead men slept, The mole and his brother-scout, And said : ‘ You soldiers that were shot, Why don’t you burrow out ?’