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She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her roll--God grant that she hath not lost it there while she slumbered!
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Henry Ward Beecher
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gutenberg.orgHenry Ward Beecher: “She has sat down like Bunyan's Pilgrim, and slept in the bower by the way, and where she slept she has left her…”
Editor's note · Context
Beecher uses a metaphor to describe New England's slumbering potential and the hope that it has not lost its purpose.
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