Excerpt from Snow-Bound Among the Hills, Songs of Labor; And Other Poems New England is not the only locality of the United States that is rich in historic treasure, nor can it now claim itself to be the center of literary life For history and literature, with the star of empire, have taken their way westward. This fact, however, robs New England of none of its glory, and historic old Massachusetts can claim no more worthy child than the little Quaker boy whose life began in the plain farm-house near Haverhill, on December 17, 1807. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.