Sunday, May 24, 2026

Diary of Lucy Larcom, October 12, 1861

How refreshing the clear cold air is, after the summer-like fogs and rains we have had! I love the cold; the northern air is strengthening; it has the breath of the hills in it, the glow of Auroral lights, and the purity of the eternal snows. There is little of the south in my nature; the north is my home; Italy and the tropics will do for dream excursions; I should long for the sweeping winds of the hillsides, if I were there.

SOURCE: Daniel Dulany Addison, Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary, p. 108

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