The Deankard's Daughter
A fragmentary poem recalling a daughter's burdens and a father's blows and the cold world’s scorn. The speaker urges the daughter to endure hardship while bearing emotional wounds marked by tears and hardship across years.
18 Mar 1852
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1852
Page
1
A fragmentary poem recalling a daughter's burdens and a father's blows and the cold world’s scorn. The speaker urges the daughter to endure hardship while bearing emotional wounds marked by tears and hardship across years.
The piece offers a child rearing moral praising industrious mothers over wealth while urging gentleness to poorer children. It contrasts a neighbor turned rich with a boy who once survived on cold potatoes and recalls light humorous quips about travelers, weather, and marital wit.
Dr. Kane’s Smithsonian lecture describes Arctic conditions during the Franklin search, detailing frozen supplies, ice drift, and long polar night. The speaker notes the dangers, scientific observations, and resolve to continue the quest despite failures and hardship.
The Founder of Christianity toppled Roman religious and political might without force. His austere, uncompromising doctrine drew millions to a new life beyond the grave, while Rome’s emperor served as high priest. In his death his message rose from obscurity to universal worship.
The piece blends Bancroft's admiration of Native life with a humorous critique of marriage. It features lofty praise of the Indian mother and infant care, then shifts to Aunt Hetty’s mordant satire on matrimony, domestic life, and gender roles, ending with aphorisms on truth and ambition.
Hobbs the lock picker from London tested the Louisiana bank locks in New Orleans. The bank teller opposed the attempt yet Hobbs opened the vault within an hour, impressing the directors while the teller grew dumbfounded.
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