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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, I. A Cambridge boyhood (search)
n of a boy's life is perhaps his outdoor training, since to live out of doors is to be forever in some respects a boy. Who could be before me, though the palace of the Caesars crackt and split with emperors, while I, sitting in silence on a cliff of Rhodes, watcht the sun as he swang his golden censer athwart the heavens? Landor's hero was not happier than my playmate, Charles Parsons, and myself, as we lay under Lowell's willows at the causey's end, after a day at Mount Auburn,--then Sweet Auburn still,to sort out our butterflies in summer or divide our walnuts in autumn, while we chanted uproariously the Hunter's chorus: -- We roam through the forest and over the mountain; No joy of the court or banquet like this. We always made a pause after the word court, and supposed ourselves to be hurling defiance at monarchies. Every boy of active tastes — and mine were eminently such — must become the one thing or the other, either a sportsman or a naturalist; and I have never regrette