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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
·
Lucy Larcom
72
We
were
not
surfeited,
in
those
days,
with
what
is
called
pleasure;
but
we
grew
up
happy
and
healthy,
learning
unconsciously
the
useful
lesson
of
doing
without.
The
birds
and
blossoms
hardly
won
a
gladder
or
more
wholesome
life
from
the
air
of
our
homely
New
England
than
we
did.
"Out
of
the
strong
came
forth
sweetness."
The
Beatitudes
are
the
natural
flowering-forth
of
the
Ten
Commandments.
And
the
happiness
of
our
lives
was
rooted
in
the
stern,
vigorous
virtues
of
the
people
we
lived
among,
drawing
thence
its
bloom
and
song,
and
fragrance.
There
was
granite
in
their
character
and
beliefs,
but
it
was
granite
that
could
smile
in
the
sunshine
and
clothe
itself
with
flowers.
We
little
ones
felt
the
firm
rock
beneath
us,
and
were
lifted
up
on
it,
to
emulate
their
goodness,
and
to
share
their
aspirations.
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