The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-04-25

.-- vi ltl CilllulOOu llOUlt
.t-. i'm Putnam county, n.
few faint recollectionS,
4g.g them the sound of the
.g4.n near herr fathers house,
.ny,He6 over the shadows and
l Gt.p pools. Yet, unseeing,
Ma 45 nature, and deeply .im'
. abSorped through every
-.. l.s charm and beauty.
.tNEF HER TEACHER.
r..rr. . rs net great and wise teacher
.,r -4ry days, and through the
!. ..H.eare of such teaching, and
ma.ilu of a deep religious faith,
:.S came @ the blind child the bless
t@+ t5anutss. From her youth until
III when at eight-Seven, she says
ss,sq e happier and more contented
N ever before, the keynote of her
1,fter AS been cheerfulneSS. This
Y o-54B to voice when she wrote her
(, 7ms. especially interesting as a
|mAh declaration of principles, and
more hating in meter, or crude in
rrpssi0n. than other first efforts of
-nyl poets. She writes:
aala. q happy soul am L,
although cannot see,
If.. .-.uv-d that in this world
'mI7ur-d sill be.
h Nav pa,y blessings | enjoy
THAT 1lh-r people don't;
grep md Oh because Pm blind,
| Iapn1j and | won't"
baun3ttly for the little poet she
|g ;4ll {. be educated at the City In
|dtrpl for the Blind in New York,
Id there met her first guide to great
|yl7 i'll Hamilton Murray, one of the
|g&sT, With him she read Pope and
|rl0 i-uuyson and Shakespeare,
| bgre. aud Burns. AS there were
| ags l1uks then than now for the use
Ii the GA. Miss Crosby committed 10
Dtli ben tavorite passages, learning
|grai. mat we hear of her memoriz-
|g 0ug rec tati0nS after single hear
Ia I r this remarkable faculty,
/ mf4atey trained, that she attri-
|ag ri method of writing her poems
|mEMs She never writes them out
Ns but composes them mentally
| Nr r-auug to an amanuensis. She
|H1T.s TACT that sometimes she has
|tG-l t0.- W. five before committing
8a J9 paper. Even then she alters
f. no Ung.
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