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Updated: May 29, 2025

Louisa found it hard to be good and o-be-di-ent. She wrote some verses about being good. She was fourteen years old when she wrote them. Here they are: A little kingdom I possess Where thoughts and feelings dwell, And very hard I find the task Of gov-ern-ing it well. For passion tempts and troubles me, A wayward will misleads, And sel-fish-ness its shadow casts On all my words and deeds.

Edward Eggleston - Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans