One of my formative memories is being t
One of my formative memories is being taken up Catbells as a young child. A real mountain! As you walk up a particularly terrifying bit there is a plaque. It has a quote which I've just learnt is from an 1868 hymn by the American poet Lucy Larcom. The hymn starts like this:
"I said it in the meadow-path,
I say it on the mountain-stairs ;
The best things any mortal hath
Are those which every mortal shares."
The plaque only quotes the last two lines of that but I can see now that it is very appropriate to place it on some "mountain-stairs"!
Full text: (you'll need to search for the words)
https://archive.org/stream/poeticalworksofl00larciala/poeticalworksofl00larciala_djvu.txt
"I said it in the meadow-path,
I say it on the mountain-stairs ;
The best things any mortal hath
Are those which every mortal shares."
The plaque only quotes the last two lines of that but I can see now that it is very appropriate to place it on some "mountain-stairs"!
Full text: (you'll need to search for the words)
https://archive.org/stream/poeticalworksofl00larciala/poeticalworksofl00larciala_djvu.txt
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