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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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Lucy Larcom
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I
was
glad
to
observe
that
she
listened
to
"Come,
ye
disconsolate,"
and
"How
firm
a
foundation;"
and
that
she
grew
more
cheerful;
though
I
did
not
feel
sure
that
my
singing
cheered
her
so
much
as
some
happier
thought
that
had
come
to
her
out
of
her
own
heart.
Nobody
but
my
mother,
indeed,
would
have
called
my
chirping
singing.
But
as
she
did
not
seem
displeased,
I
went
on,
a
little
more
confidently,
with
some
hymns
that
I
loved
for
their
starry
suggestions,--
"When
marshaled
on
the
nightly
plain,"
and
"Brightest
and
best
of
the
sons
of
the
morning,"
and
"Watchman,
tell
us
of
the
night?"
The
most
beautiful
picture
in
the
Bible
to
me,
certainly
the
loveliest
in
the
Old
Testament,
had
always
been
that
one
painted
by
prophecy,
of
the
time
when
wild
and
tame
creatures
should
live
together
in
peace,
and
children
should
be
their
fearless
playmates.
Even
the
savage
wolf
Poverty
would
be
pleasant
and
neighborly
then,
no
doubt!
A
Little
Child
among
them,
leading
them,
stood
looking
wistfully
down
through
the
soft
sunrise
of
that
approaching
day,
into
the
cold
and
darkness
of
the
world.
Oh,
it
would
be
so
much
better
than
the
garden
of
Eden!
Yes,
and
it
would
be
a
great
deal
better,
I
thought,
to
live
in
the
millennium,
than
even
to
die
and
go
to
heaven,
although
so
many
people
around
me
talked
as
if
that
were
the
most
desirable
thing
of
all.
But
I
could
never
understand
why,
if
God
sent
us
here,
we
should
be
in
haste
to
get
away,
even
to
go
to
a
pleasanter
place.
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