Richard Monologue from Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People

From Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People by Constance D'Arcy Mackay

male · defiant · 1:15 min

Such days as these lads grow to men right quickly. Do you think we waste our time with games and--and snowball forts, Tom Rigby? No! The Younger Sons of Freedom have learned to fight and fence, to run and swim, and to swarm up a ship's ladder if need be. How could any lad be idle these last nineteen days, with fathers and brothers patrolling the wharves day and night to keep the tea from landing; when patriot sentinels are stationed in every belfry; and when all Beacon Hill is topped with tar-barrels ready to blaze out into signals at a moment's notice. I tell you--my very dreams are of defiance! But my deeds--what can a lad do when he goes through life halting? A maimed foot makes a maimed ambition, unless--unless as I would fain believe, the spirit is stronger than the body. It is the that counts.

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