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Though youth be past and beauty fled, </br> The constant heart its pledge redeems, </br> Like Box that guards the flowerless bed </br> And brighter f… - Sarah Josepha Hale
" "Though youth be past and beauty fled, </br> The constant heart its pledge redeems, </br> Like Box that guards the flowerless bed </br> And brighter from the contrast seems.
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About Sarah Josepha Hale
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.
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A few hundred dollars will dry the weeping eyes of the most despairing damsel, and make her think the defection of her plighted swain a very lucky speculation—and so instead of breaking her own heart, she very coolly determines to break his credit, comforting herself with the thought that cash is more current than love.
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