Chosen by them when but a few days old.
My own real parents I have never known,
But was a stranger in my very home.
Nor less estranged have I remained from all
That happened round me in my later life.
And now my thought compels me to look back
Unto those days of long ago, and see
How from myself I stole the world away.
For thought is linked with thought to make a chain:
A man to whom it hath been thus ordained