Notes:Rainbow Valley/Cultural references and allusions

"The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."

- Rainbow Valley – Epigraph

This quote is a reference to "My Lost Youth" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was last quoted in the final chapter of Anne of Avonlea.

"That may very well be, Mrs. Dr. dear. The Good Book says that favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good will it do us then?"

This quote is a reference to Proverbs 31:30.

"Mr. Arnett couldn't preach at all. And he picked about the worst candidating text there is in the Bible–'Curse ye, Meroz.'" "Whenever he got stuck for an idea, he would bang the Bible and shout very bitterly, 'Curse ye, Meroz.' Poor Meroz got thoroughly cursed that day, whoever he was, Mrs. Dr. dear," said Susan."

This quote is a reference to Judges 5:23: "Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof".

"I believe Mr. Pierson would have got the call if he had picked a different text. But when he announced 'I will lift my eyes to the hills' he was done for."

This quote is a reference to Psalms 121:1.