Explore "Girlhood Composition" by Mary Baker Eddy on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
From childhood I was a verse-maker. Poetry suited my emotions better than prose. The following is one of my girlhood productions.
ALPHABET AND BAYONET
If fancy plumes aerial flight, / Go fix thy restless mind / On learning's lore and wisdom's might, / And live to bless mankind. / The sword is sheathed, 'tis freedom's hour, / No despot bears misrule, / Where knowledge plants the foot of power / In our God-blessed free school.
Forth from this fount the streamlets flow, / That widen in their course. / Hero and sage arise to show / Science the mighty source, / And laud the land whose talents rock / The cradle of her power, / And wreaths are twined round Plymouth Rock, / From erudition's bower.
Farther than feet of chamois fall, / Free as the generous air, / Strains nobler far than clarion call / Wake freedom's welcome, where / Minerva's silver sandals still / Are loosed, and not effete; / Where echoes still my day-dreams thrill, / Woke by her fancied feet.