Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address in Memory of Lucy Larcom: Delivered on Sunday, April 30, 1893; In St. Peter's Church, Beverly, Massachusetts
It is our privilege to think of a woman's life, singularly beautiful in all its different relations, in its varying history, recorded for us by her own hand, and in the impression made upon the imperishable hearts of fellow-souls. Men are bold who try in a few words to speak of a whole life: we can only indicate what the life has been, and testify by our simple words to its greatness.
Lucy Larcom was born in Beverly in 1824, within a few yards of the place where this serv ice is held. From the very first her young mind received indelible impressions from the peculiar ities of the town, resulting from its position on the sea, and its conditions in those early days. She here formed her first thoughts of the world she here heard the first whisperings of nature calling to her poetic soul she here laid the deep foundations of her religious faith, stimulated by her early companionships, and the kindly offices of the Church. One can trace her love for Beverly all through her poems; and she has stated definitely her regard for the town in her New England Girlhood. She says: There issomething in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart strings. A town that still has a great deal of country in it, one that is rich in beautiful scenery and ancestral associations, is almost like a living being with a body and a soul. We speak of such a town as of a mother, and think of ourselves as her sons and daughters. So we felt about our dear na tive town of Beverly.
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