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From the barren mountains and the unfurrowed sea, the soul and 

 the mind of man draw their divinest nutriment. Health, too, -will 

 surely be your portion here, and may not be there. The soil of 

 New England hides no fatal poison in its bosom : here " the sun 

 shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night." All the 

 blessings of civil society are enjoyed here in as large a measure, 

 to say the least, as any where on earth. Go where you will, you 

 will be in danger of losing more than you find. Here are schools 

 and books and cultivated men and women : here are the meeting- 

 house, the lyceum, the town-meeting, the cattle show : here are 

 good laws and good roads, the spirit of order and the spirit of 

 progress : here is a noble past and an inspiriting future. Here fix 

 your home : here plant your afiections : here let life's sun and 

 shade ripen you. 



