II.

Yes!—twenty years have pass’d, and I am come,

Unknown, unwelcomed, to my early home;

A stranger, striving in my walks to trace

The youthful features in some aged face.

On as I move, some curious looks I read;

We pause a moment, doubt, and then proceed.

They’re like what once I saw, but not the same;

I lose the air, the features, and the name. 70

Yet something seems like knowledge, but the change