Before his tent were motionless. The leaves

Of the spiced aloe, and the clustering vines

Which half concealed his threshold, met his eye

Unchanged and beautiful; and one by one,

The balsam with its sweet-distilling stems,

And the Circassian rose, and all the crowd

Of silent and familiar things, stole up

Like the recovered passages of dreams.

He strode on rapidly. A moment more,

And he had reached his home; when lo! there sprang