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History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654;

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604 HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON. [1819.<br />

wards, Strong, take pride <strong>in</strong> the records <strong>of</strong> their lives, and<br />

f<strong>in</strong>d <strong>in</strong> them an <strong>in</strong>centive toward noble effort. Oliver<br />

Wendell Holmes has said : —<br />

"Happy is the child whose first dreams <strong>of</strong> Heaven are blended with<br />

the even<strong>in</strong>g glories <strong>of</strong> Mount Holyoke, when the sun is fir<strong>in</strong>g <strong>its</strong> tree-<br />

tops and gild<strong>in</strong>g the white walls <strong>of</strong> that mark, <strong>its</strong> one human dwell-<br />

<strong>in</strong>g."<br />

And we may add : thrice blessed is the man whose high<br />

privilege it is here <strong>in</strong> this historic city to build upon the<br />

foundations laid by those mighty men <strong>of</strong> old.

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