It marks a Descension from the higher plane reached by the vigorous pioneers who planted and reared our social tree.
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
Assuredly, our conception of a choir worthy to render that chorus is not of an elect handful of "saints," or contracted souls, embraced within any Calvinistic covenant, but of an innumerable multitude of ennobled, purified, and expanded beings, convoked from every satellite and planet, every sun and star, and overflowing with gratitude and love to that universal Father of lights, with whom is no parallax, nor Descension, and who kindled every spark of life and beauty that in their individual and combined lustre He might reflect and repeat His own ineffable blessedness.
"Moon Lore"
Timothy Harley
When there should have been an ascension there was a Descension.
"Watch Yourself Go By"
Al. G. Field