Verses Upon the Burning of Our House

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Does EVERYONE in the Bradstreet family escape the fire? How do you know this?

Yes. "He might of all justly bereft/But yet sufficient for us left" (lines 19-20)

What is the speaker's first response to hearing the "fearful sound" of fire?

She prayed for strength.

The lines "When by the ruins oft past,/My sorrowing eyes aside did cast" emphasize that the speaker

is struggling to let go of her home

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