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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Mary Moody Emerson - Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, MA


Mary Moody Emerson
daughter of
William Emerson, Minister of Concord
and Phebe Bliss his wife.
born in Concord 23 August 1774
died in Wiliamsburgh, L. I. 1 May 1863

She gave high counsels --
It was the privilege of certain boys
to have this immeasurably high standard
indicated to their childhood a blessing
which nothing else in education
could supply

(reverse)

Ah me! it was my childhood's thought
If He should make my web a blot
On life's fair picture of delight
My heart's content would find it right.

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