And all men look’d upon him favourably:
And ere he touch’d his one and-twentieth May
He purchased his own boat, and made a home
For Annie, neat and nest-like, halfway up
The narrow street that clamber’d toward the mill. 60
Then, on a golden autumn eventide,
The younger people making holiday,
With bag and sack and basket, great and small
Went nutting to the hazels. Philip stay’d
(His father lying sick and needing him) 65