Accession: V03095A
Editorial Title: Sonnet, 1863
Author: Mary Baker Eddy 
Recipient: Isaac N. Felch 
Date: 1863 - archivist estimate
Manuscript Description: Photocopy of a handwritten sonnet by Mary Baker Eddy on unlined paper.
Archival Note: The original document is at the Library of Congress. V03095A is a copy of this document. The date of this document is an archivist estimate.
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For the CourierEditorial Note: Evening Courier (Portland, Maine) [*]Archival Note: There is a check mark written here.
Sonnet

Suggested by reading the remarkable cure of CaptainAs Written:Capt. J. W. Deering
To
Doctor P. P. Quimby

Mid light of science sits the sage profound, Awing with classics and his starry lore, Climbing to Venus, chasing Saturn round, Turning his mystic pages o'er and o'er– Till from empyrean space his wearied sight Turns to the oasis on which to gaze– More bright than glitters on the brow of night, The self-taughtAs Written:self taught man walking in wisdom's ways. Then paused the captive gaze with peace entwined, And sight was satisfied with thee to dwell; But not in classics could the bookwormAs Written:book worm find That law of excellence, whence came the spell Potent o'er all,– the captive to unbined– To heal the sick and faint, the halt and blind.

Mary M. Patterson
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For the CourierEditorial Note: Evening Courier (Portland, Maine) [*]Archival Note: There is a check mark written here.
Sonnet

Suggested by reading the remarkable cure of Capt.Expanded:Captain J. W. Deering
To
Doctor P. P. Quimby

Mid light of science sits the sage profound, Awing with classics and his starry lore, Climbing to Venus, chasing Saturn round, Turning his mystic pages o'er and o'er– Till from empyrean space his wearied sight Turns to the oasis on which to gaze– More bright than glitters on the brow of night, The self taughtCorrected:self-taught man walking in wisdom's ways. Then paused the captive gaze with peace entwined, And sight was satisfied with thee to dwell; But not in classics could the book wormCorrected:bookworm find That law of excellence, whence came the spell Potent o'er all,– the captive to unbined– To heal the sick and faint, the halt and blind.

Mary M. Patterson
 
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