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Updated: June 29, 2025

That she preserved it simply as a record of a mental state, is evident from the fact, that it was never included in any edition of her poems, it having been found among her papers after her death. UPON A FIT OF SICKNESS, Anno. 1632. Aetatis suce, 19. Twice ten years old not fully told since nature gave me breath, My race is run, my thread is spun, lo! here is fatal Death.

Helen Campbell - Anne Bradstreet and Her Time