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Lucy Larcom: "Agama nenek moyang kita membayangi kita, anak-anak seper...

"Agama nenek moyang kita membayangi kita, anak-anak seperti bayang-bayang pohon besar di batang pohon tempat kami beristirahat, sementara kami memandang ke atas dengan kagum melalui dahan-dahan besar yang setengah tersembunyi dan setengahnya mengungkapkan langit. Beberapa dahan sudah membusuk, sehingga mungkin kami mulai melihat sedikit lebih banyak langit daripada yang lebih tua; tetapi pohon itu sehat di hatinya."

--- Lucy Larcom

Versi Bahasa Inggris

The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.