Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the la… - Sarah Josepha Hale

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Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Sarah Josepha Hale

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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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Birth Name: Sarah Josepha Buell

Alternative Names: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale • Sarah J. Hale • Sarah Hale

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Rugged strength and radiant beauty— These were one in nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty— These will form the perfect man!

Beauty was lent to nature as the type Of heaven's unspeakable and holy joy, Where all perfection makes the sum of bliss.

And evermore the Deep has worshipped God; And Bards and Prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the floods.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. - Sarah Josepha Hale

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