Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 119
r, and for the olddays on the farm which cannot return. The farm boy never outgrows his love of the farm;how its memories cling to him, how the old scenes areinterwoven with the very texture of his being! Onecan go back to his natal spot, but how impossible to goback to the life he lived there, to… … John Burroughs. A Glance Backward 91 which my fathers farm lay, and where as a youth Ihad been scores of times to salt the sheep or to fetchthem home. I drank at the cold spring just below thesummit where I had so often drunk before, and then Isat down upon a rock and mused upon the landscapespread…
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