Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 75
try/ are other words which, falling first fromthe lips of an eminent American, have often beenpainted on banners, and echoed by the voices of innum-erable multitudes. Cold and dreary, narrow and self-ish, would be this life, if nothing but our countryoccupied our souls; if the thoughts that wander… … To the Spot Where We Were Born. by a natural sentiment to the spot where we were born,to the fields that witnessed the sports of childhood, tothe seat of youthful studies, and to the institutionsunder which we have been trained. The finger of Godwrites all these things in indelible colors upon the…
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