A drowsy peal of distant bells came down:
From the tall houses here and there, a light
Served some confused remembrance to excite:
“There,” he observed, and new emotions felt,
“Was my first home - and yonder Judith dwelt;
Dead! dead are all! I long - I fear to know,”
He said, and walk’d impatient, and yet slow.
Sudden there broke upon his grief a noise
Of merry tumult and of vulgar joys:
Seamen returning to their ship, were come,