Honored with little less than filial love.

What joy was mine to see thee once again,

Thee and they dwelling, and a crowd of things

About its narrow precincts all beloved,

And many of them seeming yet my own!

Why should I speak of what a thousand hearts

Have felt, and every man alive can guess?

The rooms, the court, the garden were not left

Long unsaluted, nor the sunny seat

Round the stone table under the dark pine,