Directions for Reading.—Read the conversational parts of this poem like conversation in prose.
Point out the emphatic words in the first line of the last stanza.
Language Lesson.—Into sunset steering, means sailing westward.
The misty distance thronging, means gathering together in the distance.
The still air rings with rapture, means that the air becomes full of joyful shouts.
All the vanished joy of years the waiting ones recapture, means that the children regain the happiness lost during their father's absence.