. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. everal years. It has been suggested with some show ofprobabiHty that it is a memory of the days they spent to-gether at her grandfathers that is embodied in the poem* My Playmate. At the time when this poem was writ-ten she was living in Kentucky. She lives where all the golden yearHer summer roses blow ;The dusky children of the sunBefore her come and go. But this poem, like others of Whittiers, is probably acomposite of memories and largely imaginative, as isshown in what is elsewhere said about the localities ofRamoth Hill and Folly Mill. In the g
. Whittier-land; a handbook of North Essex. everal years. It has been suggested with some show ofprobabiHty that it is a memory of the days they spent to-gether at her grandfathers that is embodied in the poem* My Playmate. At the time when this poem was writ-ten she was living in Kentucky. She lives where all the golden yearHer summer roses blow ;The dusky children of the sunBefore her come and go. But this poem, like others of Whittiers, is probably acomposite of memories and largely imaginative, as isshown in what is elsewhere said about the localities ofRamoth Hill and Folly Mill. In the garden room also is a miniature on ivory of 68 WHITTIER-LAND a beautiful girl of seventeen, crowned with roses. This isEvelina Bray of Marblehead, a classmate of Whittiers atthe Academy in the year 1827, when this portrait waspainted. But for adverse circumstances, the school ac-quaintance which led to a warm attachment between themmight have resulted in marriage. But the case was hope-less from the first. He was but nineteen years old, and. EVELINA BRAY, AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN she seventeen. On both sides the families opposed thematch. Among the Quakers marriage outside of society was not to be thought of in those days ; in his case itwould mean the breaking up of a family circle dependenton him, and a severance from his loved mother and same reason prevented the ripening of other attach- AMESBURY 69 ments in later life ; for in each case his choice wouldhave been out of society. Two or three years afterthey parted at the close ofan Academy term, he walkedfrom Salem to jNIarbleheadbefore breakfast on a Junemorning, to see his school-mate. He was then editingthe American Manufac-turer, in Boston. She couldnot invite him in, and theywalked to the old ruined fort,and sat on the rocks over-looking the beautiful meeting is commemo-rated in three stanzas of oneof the loveliest of his poems,A Sea Dream — a poem,by the way, not as a whole referring to Marbleh
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