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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
. The only additional great truth that occurs to me is this which it is strange I mentioned not before —that on Sunday next you will lose your last baby. Your youngest son will attain his majority! Shall you not have an ox roasted whole at Boscobel? This was the name of the Brattleboro house. The poem referred to, written at the age of eight, ran thus:— I. How sweet the morning air To those who early rise To gather flowers for their hair Before the sun is in the skies! II. The n the midst of these absorbing public interests the young student was agitated by personal problems; and when his first year at the school was nearly over, he wrote this startling letter to his mother. It must have fallen like a bomb into quiet Boscobel:— That the cup of your joy may not be more full than is good for you, I write to say that I have finally made up my mind that I must leave the Divinity School. Entirely apart from the fact that instructors, companions, and course of stud<