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A quotation from J. M. Barrie

MRS. DARLING: (from the window) Peter, where are you? Let me adopt you too. (She is the loveliest age for a woman, but too old to see PETER clearly.)
 
PETER: Would you send me to school?
 
MRS. DARLING: (obligingly) Yes.
 
PETER: And then to an office?
 
MRS. DARLING: I suppose so.
 
PETER: Soon I should be a man?
 
MRS. DARLING: Very soon.
 
PETER: (passionately) I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. No one is going to catch me, lady, and make me a man. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
Peter Pan, Act 5 (1904, pub. 1928)

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#December 12, 1907
#OTD James Rigg, #Scottish #Victorian #Poet, #HymnWriter, & #Composer, died.

His book on #WildFlowers begins,

From #Boyhood, I have been #InLove with #Wildlings.
I rank them among my #Teachers & #Preachers.

If [my #Poems] lead one here + there with a #Lighter #Heart,
To gather imperishable #Treasures
From #Lovely #Blossoms that #Kiss #Clear #Brooks & #Mountain Wells -
I shall have done my #Little to check
The #Nature-#Forgetting #Tendencies of #CityLife.

#Flower