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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1851
Page
1
Poem urges steadfast effort amid hardship, praising resilience and the power of small deeds. It emphasizes rising from weariness to continue work, driven by a moral call to overcome doubt and despair.
A reflective meditation on death’s quieting of worldly concerns, the fleeting reach of memory, and the enduring pull of conscience. The piece contrasts intimate sorrow with public neglect, urging a life of duty, honesty, and regular virtue as the true path to happiness. It also touches on appearances, poverty, and the dignity of patched clothing in church and school.
A fragmented verse extols a flower’s beauty and secrecy. The speaker envies the blossom’s simple life and pure soul, wishing to live obscurely and breathe its essence, then fade and be renewed like the flower, sleeping and waking to bloom again.
The fragment describes love and friendship as birds amid winter storms. It contrasts birds that flee at clouded skies with the steadfast snow-bird that remains. It likens love to a bird that may fade when fortune's sun departs, leaving the heart longing for cheerful song.
The page mixes a torn letter from a dying nineteen year old wife to her fiancé with long excerpts on grief and faith, plus assorted vignettes. It reports personal losses, pious reflections, and musings on memory, then shifts to oddities about disease cures, snippets on farming practices, dog tales, legal anecdotes, and light humor from local life.
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