FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 89 



Not like to like, but like in difference : 

 Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; 

 The man be more of woman, she of man ; 

 He gain in sweetness and in moral height, 

 Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the 



world ; 

 She mental breadth, nor fail in childward 



care, 



Nor lose the child-like in the larger mind ; 

 Till at the last she set herself to man, 

 Like perfect music unto noble words ; 

 And so these twain, upon the skirts of Time, 

 Sit side by side, full summ d in all their pow 

 ers, 



Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, 

 Self-reverent each and reverencing each, 

 Distinct in individualities, 

 But like each other ev n as those who love. 



I was struck by Phillis s suggestion in at 

 tempting to account for a certain lack of 

 interest in outward nature and natural 

 science which appeared to be visible in her 

 sisters, that their thought and feeling were 

 by constitution more centred upon the in 

 dividual human being, and personal rela 

 tions. Whether this be so, I cannot say, 

 but certainly there seems to be with them 

 a definite tendency toward measuring by 

 the concrete, and ignoring abstract rela 

 tions and wide affinities and deductions, 



