"What! what!" he cried, "am I deceived?
If I'm my father's son
That girl I see back yonder
Is Sadie Waddington!"
He hastened back to where she knelt,
And bade her to arise,
And clasped her to his manly breast,
While tears rose in his eyes.
Then 'tween her sobs and moans and groans
She slowly did relate
How she was driven from her home
Back in the Empire State.
She told of awful suffering,
Of wandering far and near;
Of the death of father and mother,
To her all that was dear.
She told him how she had returned
Unto her mountain dome,
And as she was told that all had been sold,
She was left without a home.