I learned it in the meadow path

I learned it in the meadow path. Lucy Larcom* (1826-1893). First published in Larcom’s Wild Roses of Cape Ann, and Other Poems (Boston, 1881), with the title ‘Shared’. It is an unusual poem, taking for its subject the sharing of gifts, the good things of life, its joys and delights. There have been many minor alterations to the original text: I said it in the meadow-path,  I say it on the mountain-stairs, - The best things any mortal hath  Are those which every mortal shares. The air we breathe, the sky, the breeze,  The light without us and within,Life with its unlocked treasuries,  God’s riches, are for all to win. The grass is softer to my tread,  For rest it yields unnumbered...