Nay, listen, let me first explain my thought.

[Coming nearer.

Time was when I was young, like you, and played

Like you, the unconquerable Titan’s part;

Year after year I toiled and moiled for bread,

Which hardens a man’s hand, but not his heart.

For northern fells my lonely home surrounded,

And by my parish bounds my world was bounded.

My home—Ah, Falk, I wonder, do you know

What home is?