Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 108
s in them, their only portion. Lightvisits the hearts as it does the eyes of all living:there is a force, too, in this youth, that enables himto trample on misfortune; nay, to bind it under hisfeet to make him sport. For a bold, warm, buoyanthumor of character has been given him; and so… … Burns as a Plough-boy. 80 Men Who Have Risen cloud-cities around him; the curtain of existence isslowly rising, in many-colored splendor and gloom;and the auroral light of first love is gilding his horizon,and the music of song is on his path; and so he walks — in glory and in joy,Behind his plough…
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