The winds that slumbered in the fields of dew,

Float round me now with music on their pinions,

Such as I heard while yet my years were few,

By native streams, in boyhood’s lost dominions.

And with the breath of morning on my brow,

I hear the accents of the few who love me;

Sing on full heart! I am no exile now—

This is no foreign sky that smiles above me.

I hear the happy sounds of household glee,

The heart’s own music, floating here to bless me,