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Day in the Life

Jul 14, 1841

Journal Entry

July 14, 1841 ~ Wednesday

14th I wrote the following lines in Eunice Woodruff Album

Not all the wealth of earth combined
Can give content like the innocent mind
Who in the flower of youthful bloom
Can taste the joys of a rural home
Free from borrowed care and anxious thought
Contentment reigns in the peasant's cot
As natures wants are few they'r soon supplied
Without the aid of crime or pomp or pride
Innocent as the flowers that bloom in spring
She shares in all the Joys that time can bring
While nature in her lovliness here doth act her part
Her unstudied posture speaks the language of the heart
O! reader learn wisdom from the PEASANT COT
And be content with thy future LOT

I rode to West Hartford with Br Webster & Sister Eunice 5 miles

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Webster, Dwight
13 Apr 1814 - 19 Aug 1868
126 mentions
Family
Webster, Eunice Hart Woodruff
19 Jun 1821 - 15 Jun 1853
258 mentions
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Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut

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Jul 14, 1841