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By Nathaniel Hawthorne
…the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.
- Source
- The Scarlet Letter, a Romance (first edition), 1850 · Chapter I, "The Prison-Door", p. 56
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- Internet Archive (Duke University Libraries scan of the first edition, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850)
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From Chapter I, "The Prison-Door", of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850). The narrator describes the weeds in front of the Puritan town's wooden jail. The quote starts mid-sentence.