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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: around you, and can look through the arch which frames its own
fair picture. In the foreground lies the steep slope overgrown
with bayberry and gay with thistle blooms; then the little
winding cove with its bordering cliffs; and the rough pastures
with their grazing sheep beyond. Or, ascending the parapet,
you can look across the bay to the men making hay picturesquely
on far-off lawns, or to the cannon on the outer works of Fort
Adams, looking like vast black insects that have crawled forth
to die.
Here our young people spent the day; some sketched, some played
croquet, some bathed in rocky inlets where the kingfisher
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