The morning surges come.

Thy name shall memory echo,

As exiled shell its wave.

Art thou my home no longer?

Still keep for me a grave.”


CHAPTER II.

IN ILLINOIS.
1846-1852.

A journey from Massachusetts to Illinois, in 1846, was long, and filled with inconveniences. A little time-worn diary, written in pencil, kept by Lucy Larcom on the journey, is interesting for itself, and preserves the record of the difficulties that beset early travelers to the West.