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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
·
Lucy Larcom
151
That
we
are
entirely
separate,
while
yet
we
entirely
belong
to
the
Whole,
is
a
truth
that
we
learn
to
rejoice
in,
as
we
come
to
understand
more
and
more
of
ourselves,
and
of
this
human
life
of
ours,
which
seems
so
complicated,
and
yet
is
so
simple.
And
when
we
once
get
a
glimpse
of
the
Divine
Plan
in
it
all,
and
know
that
to
be
just
where
we
are,
doing
just
what
we
are
doing
just
at
this
hour
because
it
is
our
appointed
hour,--when
we
become
aware
that
this
is
the
very
best
thing
possible
for
us
in
God's
universe,
the
hard
task
grows
easy,
the
tiresome
employment
welcome
and
delightful.
Having
fitted
ourselves
to
our
present
work
in
such
a
way
as
this,
we
are
usually
prepared
for
better
work,
and
are
sent
to
take
a
better
place.
Perhaps
this
is
one
of
the
unfailing
laws
of
progress
in
our
being.
Perhaps
the
Master
of
Life
always
rewards
those
who
do
their
little
faithfully
by
giving
them
some
greater
opportunity
for
faithfulness.
Certainly,
it
is
a
comfort,
wherever
we
are,
to
say
to
ourselves:--
"Thou
camest
not
to
thy
place
by
accident,
It
is
the
very
place
God
meant
for
thee."
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