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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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Lucy Larcom
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I
liked
to
say
over
the
"Blesseds,"--the
shortest
ones
best,--about
the
meek
and
the
pure
in
heart;
and
the
two
"In
the
beginnings,"
both
in
Genesis
and
John.
Every
child's
earliest
and
proudest
Scriptural
conquest
in
school
was,
almost
as
a
matter
of
course,
the
first
verse
in
the
Bible.
But
the
passage
which
I
learned
first,
and
most
delighted
to
repeat
after
Aunt
Hannah,--I
think
it
must
have
been
her
favorite
too,--was,
"Let
not
your
heart
be
troubled.
In
my
Father's
house
are
many
mansions."
The
Voice
in
the
Book
seemed
so
tender!
Somebody
was
speaking
who
had
a
heart,
and
who
knew
that
even
a
little
child's
heart
was
sometimes
troubled.
And
it
was
a
Voice
that
called
us
somewhere;
to
the
Father's
house,
with
its
many
mansions,
so
sunshiny
and
so
large.
It
was
a
beautiful
vision
that
came
to
me
with
the
words,--I
could
see
it
best
with
my
eyes
shut,-a
great,
dim
Door
standing
ajar,
opening
out
of
rosy
morning
mists,
overhung
with
swaying
vines
and
arching
boughs
that
were
full
of
birds;
and
from
beyond
the
Door,
the
ripple
of
running
waters,
and
the
sound
of
many
happy
voices,
and
above
them
all
the
One
Voice
that
was
saying,
"I
go
to
prepare
a
place
for
you."
The
vision
gave
me
a
sense
of
freedom,
fearless
and
infinite.
What
was
there
to
be
afraid
of
anywhere?
Even
we
little
children
could
see
the
open
door
of
our
Father's
house.
We
were
playing
around
its
threshold
now,
and
we
need
never
wander
out
of
sight
of
it.
The
feeling
was
a
vague
one,
but
it
was
like
a
remembrance.
The
spacious
mansions
were
not
far
away.
They
were
my
home.
I
had
known
them,
and
should
return
to
them
again.
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