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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

The Book our Mothers Read


We search the world for truth, we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful,
From graven stone and written scroll,
And all old flower-fields of the soul;
And, weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mothers read.
 

John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807 ~ 07 September 1892

 
See also . . .
Christmas of 1888
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