Beside Still Waters

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Beside Still Waters is a book by Arthur Christopher Benson. An epigraph reads: I will run the way of Thy commandments; when Thou hast set my heart at liberty. The contents give chapter headings such as The Family, The Scene, The Church, Childhood and Books, and The Schoolmaster, School Life and Companions, among others.

A character named Hugh looks at old books in later days and wonders what the exact social position of the parents in such books as Frank, and Harry and Lucy was supposed to be. The text says the days in which Hugh learnt the truth about himself had nothing of gloom or sadness about them. The text names Mr. Fearing, in the Pilgrim's Progress, who went down from the House Beautiful into the valley.

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Arthur Christopher Benson

Arthur Christopher Benson (1862 to 1925) was an English essayist, poet, and master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the words to Land of Hope and Glory and produced many volumes of essays, tales, and reflective prose.