THE FRIENDLY ROAD
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Publication Date: 2015-08-19
File Size: 420 KB
Print Length: 175 pages
Publisher: Muncha Media
Language: English
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"Is
it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in
spring?"
It
is eight o'clock of a sunny spring morning. I have been on the road for almost
three hours. At five I left the town of Holt, before six I had crossed the
railroad at a place called Martin's Landing, and an hour ago, at seven, I could
see in the distance the spires of Nortontown. And all the morning as I came
tramping along the fine country roads with my pack-strap resting warmly on my
shoulder, and a song in my throat just nameless words to a nameless tune and
all the birds singing, and all the brooks bright under their little bridges, I
knew that I must soon step aside and put down, if I could, some faint
impression of the feeling of this time and place. I cannot hope to convey any
adequate sense of it all of the feeling of lightness, strength, clearness, I
have as I sit here under this maple tree but I am going to write as long as
ever I am happy at it, and when I am no longer happy at it, why, here at my
very hand lies the pleasant country road, stretching away toward newer hills
and richer scenes.
Until
to-day I have not really been quite clear in my own mind as to the step I have
taken. My sober friend, have you ever tried to do anything that the world at
large considers not quite sensible, not quite sane? Try it! It is easier to
commit a thundering crime. A friend of mine delights in walking to town
bareheaded, and I fully believe the neighbourhood is more disquieted thereby
than it would be if my friend came home drunken or failed to pay his debts.