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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 [1841], Mark Meriden (Isaac H. Cady, Providence) [word count] [eaf382]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
BY MRS. LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY. Sweet sisters — blest the art that keeps The form of grace, the brow of snow, From Time's dark wing, that coldly sweeps To blight those beauties while they glow; But that which gives each charm its power, The heart sincere — the thought refin'd — The love that soothes affliction's hour — The calm and holy light of mind — These ask no limner's magic skill, Nor shrink at adverse fortune's moan; Through fading years they flourish still — Sweet sisters, guard them as your own. The above lines were suggested on seeing the portrait
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 [1841], Mark Meriden (Isaac H. Cady, Providence) [word count] [eaf382]. |