Again its busy streets encompass me—

Their outlines never looked so full and clear.

Shop, factory, office, church and clattering mill;

The trim red school-house smiling from the hill;

The mimic river with its placid tide,

The quaint old graveyard lingering by its side;

And all the home-made dramas of the past,

Are acted over with a mellower grace;

The wedding-bells that rang so loud and fast—