Mad.

This piece won the Post-Graduate medal at the Ninth Annual Commencement of the Mt. Vernon Institute of Elocution and Languages, 1892.

’Twas many years since I had left my home

To travel distant lands, but time sped on;[1229]

Again with eagerness and wonderment

I sought the cherish’d haunts[1230] and friends of yore.

One man whom I remember’d as a boy,

Whose piercing eyes, pale face, and silken locks

Had oft comment attracted, now I found