Verses Upon the Burning of Our House
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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
What is the speaker's first response to hearing the "fearful sound" of fire?
She prayed for strength.
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)
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