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FROM THE ARCHIVESep 20, 1883·Concord, New Hampshire

LIFEWORK: THREADS WE WIND

Scanned from The People And New Hampshire Patriot, Sep 20, 1883
LIFEWORK: THREADS WE WIND
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6 PEOPLE AND PATRIOT THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 1883 e eot ko iy MISCELLANY THE SKEIN WE WIND vou and. I today Should stop and lay Qur lifework down and let our hands fall where they will Fall down to lie quite still. And if some other hand should come and stoop to find. The threads we carvied so that it could wind Beginning where we stopped if it should come to keep Qur lifework going seek.

To earry on the good design Distinetively made yours or mine. What would it find. Some work we must be doing true or false. Some threads we wind some purpose so exalts Itself that we look up to it or down.

As to a crown. To bow before and we weave threads Of different length and thicknesssome mere shreds. And wind them round sill all the skein of life is bound Sometimes forgetting at the time. To ask Fhe value of the threads or choose Strong stuff to use.

No hand but winds some thread. At cannot stand quite still till it is dead. But what it spins and winds a little skein God made each hand for worknot toilstain Is required but every.

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