The Homestead
Title
The Homestead
Subject
Family, home, memory
Description
Brief sketch of memories held by the family home, published in Sedgwick's handwriting.
Creator
Sedgwick, C. M.
Source
Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, edited by John P. Kennedy and Alexander Bliss, p.145.
Publisher
Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey.
Date
1864
Contributor
D. Gussman
Relation
Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors, edited by John P. Kennedy and Alexander Bliss, Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, p.145. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Autograph_Leaves_of_Our_Country_s_Author/ab4_AAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Format
Document
Language
English
Type
Sketch
Text
"The Homestead"
Certain it is these walls of our old home give out to the attentive ear of memory the harmonies of family love -- the soft glad whisper of the birth-day -- the merry music of the marriage-bell -- the shout of joyous meetings -- the sighs of partings, the noisy, idle, & yet most wise joys of childhood--the ringing gaieties of youth -- the free fearless discussions of manhood--the loving admonition of age--the funeral wail & lament! -- And there we hold communion with "Spirits unseen--Both when we wake & when we sleep!"
CM Sedgwick
Certain it is these walls of our old home give out to the attentive ear of memory the harmonies of family love -- the soft glad whisper of the birth-day -- the merry music of the marriage-bell -- the shout of joyous meetings -- the sighs of partings, the noisy, idle, & yet most wise joys of childhood--the ringing gaieties of youth -- the free fearless discussions of manhood--the loving admonition of age--the funeral wail & lament! -- And there we hold communion with "Spirits unseen--Both when we wake & when we sleep!"
CM Sedgwick
Files
Collection
Citation
Sedgwick, C. M., “The Homestead,” Sedgwick Stories: The Shorter Works of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, accessed November 7, 2025, https://sedgwickstories.omeka.net/items/show/79.