{"id":439,"date":"2022-11-10T09:43:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T09:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlycricket.uk\/?page_id=439"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:44:40","slug":"lord-byron-childish-recollections-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/lord-byron-childish-recollections-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Childish Recollections &#8211; Lord Byron (1806)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/439?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Excerpt only<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This poem dates from 1806, when Byron was 19. Two years before, he had played cricket for Harrow against Eton at Lord&#8217;s, scoring 7 and 2. It contains elements of nostalgia for what it asserts to be a time\u00a0of\u00a0lost innocence. The following extracts relate to cricket and provide an insight into the role of the game in the lives of the youth of the well-to-do, together with an example of the game figuring in the work of England&#8217;s finest poets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">High, through those elms with hoary branches crown\u2019d\nFair IDA\u2019S bower adorns the landscape round;\nThere Science, from her favour\u2019d seat, surveys\nThe vale where rural Nature claims her praise;\nTo her awhile resigns her youthful train,\nWho move in joy, and dance along the plain;\nIn scatter\u2019d groups, each favour\u2019d haunt pursue,\nRepeat old pastimes, and discover new;\nFlush\u2019d with his rays, beneath the noontide Sun,\nIn rival bands, between the wickets run,\nDrive o\u2019er the sward the ball with active force,\nOr chase with nimble feet its rapid course.\n\n...........\n\nAlonzo! best and dearest of my friends,\nThy name ennobles him, who thus commends:\nFrom this fond tribute thou canst gain no praise;\nThe praise is his, who now that tribute pays.\nOh! in the promise of thy early youth,\nIf Hope anticipate the words of Truth!\nSome loftier bard shall sing thy glorious name,\nTo build his own, upon thy deathless fame:\nFriend of my heart, and foremost of the list\nOf those with whom I lived supremely blest;\nOft have we drain\u2019d the font of ancient lore,\nThough drinking deeply, thirsting still the more;\nYet, when Confinement\u2019s lingering hour was done,\nOur sports, our studies, and our souls were one:\nTogether we impell\u2019d the flying ball,\nTogether waited in our tutor\u2019s hall;\nTogether join\u2019d in cricket\u2019s manly toil,\nOr shar\u2019d the produce of the river\u2019s spoil;\nOr plunging from the green declining shore,\nOur pliant limbs the buoyant billows bore:\nIn every element, unchang\u2019d, the same,\nAll, all that brothers should be, but the name.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt only This poem dates from 1806, when Byron was 19. Two years before, he had played cricket for Harrow against Eton at Lord&#8217;s, scoring 7 and 2. It contains elements of nostalgia for what it asserts to be a time\u00a0of\u00a0lost innocence. 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