Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace

Author:Maud Hart Lovelace
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1950-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

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Poetry, Music, and Dance

“How good is man’s life, the mere living! how fit to employ

All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!”

EMILY WAS COMING HOME from the Browning class. It was a boisterous night; snow blew into her face as she walked across the slough, her body bent and braced to meet the wind. She didn’t feel cold. She felt exhilarated to the ends of her mittened fingers. The richness of “Saul” warmed her like a fire.

“No wonder Don loves Browning!” But she amended that thought. “No, it’s surprising! Don hasn’t the joy in life, and the faith in people, and the—the love of God that Browning has. Or has he? Maybe I don’t understand Don.”

She struggled up the snowy path to her door.

“I’m going to talk with him when he comes home for Christmas,” she resolved, stamping her feet at the threshold. It was silly to let him ignore her when they had so much in common.

Going into the silent house, she laughed suddenly. “I’m not so humble as I used to be. But who could be humble, studying Browning? He makes you feel important just because you’re a human being.”

The Browning class had met only twice, but it had already changed the color of Emily’s winter. Miss Fowler had stressed her conviction that Browning was not “a poet for the cultured few.” It was true, she said, that he wasn’t easy reading. You had to keep your dictionaries and reference books handy. But he was vital, red-blooded, with a deep interest in all human problems. He gave supreme importance to the battle between right and wrong.

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