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Bertha Adams Backus
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“Build for yourself a strong box, / Fashion each part with care; / When it's strong as your hand can make it, / Put all your troubles there; / ... / Lock all your heartaches within it, / Then sit on the lid and laugh.”
Bertha Adams Backus, U.S. poet
(1870 - 1956)