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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., Notes by a Medford Vacationist of long ago. (search)
of an Elizabethan shell as it falls upon the citadel of his comfort. Among the unmarried ladies of this rather remarkable place is one on whose head and heart a half century has set its seal, without sealing either up. Nature bestowed upon her the regal title to intellectual eminence, and the heavenly gift has neither been soiled or dishonored. Her conversation is a sort of incarnation of Johnson and Addison, and her chat, when the mood is on, not unlike what we presume to have been Horace Walpole's and not entirely free from his severity. Had fate ordained her to a wider sphere of action she might have been the Opie of New England. Was this Miss Lucy Osgood? A sterile soil and savage neighbors called upon the early settlers for thought. To live and not die, was a great motive. Thought and action were then married, and continuous labor did for the physical, what an unfailing trust in Providence did for the spiritual. . . . The great miracle of 1620 is still mightily worki