Filled thy dream with the old delight?

"Told thee tales of more marvelous summers

Of the far away and the long ago,

Made thee my own nurse-child forever

In the tender dear dark land of the snow?

"Have I not rocked thee, have I not lulled thee,

Crooned thee in forest, and cradled in foam,

Then with a smile from the hearthstone of childhood

Bade thee farewell when thy heart bade thee roam?

"Ah, my wide-wanderer, thou blessed vagrant,