"At Hame in My Ain Country"
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:26 pm
Some food for thought.
It is interesting that when the mantle carving is put into Google with the exact wording and spelling only one link comes up.
The Child Ballards were compiled by a Boston professor who was contemporary of Lizzie. It is not far fetched to think she may have read this
and the content gives rise to some interesting ideas about the personal meaning of the mantle carving to Lizzie. I know the standard assumption is that it came from the Allen Cunningham poem but I wonder if it might have had a different source and meaning.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch110.htm
Gramma
It is interesting that when the mantle carving is put into Google with the exact wording and spelling only one link comes up.
The Child Ballards were compiled by a Boston professor who was contemporary of Lizzie. It is not far fetched to think she may have read this
and the content gives rise to some interesting ideas about the personal meaning of the mantle carving to Lizzie. I know the standard assumption is that it came from the Allen Cunningham poem but I wonder if it might have had a different source and meaning.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch110.htm
Gramma