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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: motive of expediency, necessarily regulated the selection. I
have, then, culled from the mass only a little poem here and
there. The whole makes but a tiny nosegay, and the colour and
perfume of the flowers are not such as fit them for festal uses.
It has been already said that my sisters wrote much in childhood
and girlhood. Usually, it seems a sort of injustice to expose in
print the crude thoughts of the unripe mind, the rude efforts of
the unpractised hand; yet I venture to give three little poems of
my sister Emily's, written in her sixteenth year, because they
illustrate a point in her character.
At that period she was sent to school. Her previous life, with
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