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As leaving some grand waterfall,
We, lingering, list its roar —
So memory will hallow all
We've known, but know no more.
My Childhood's Home I See Again (1844)
I range the fields with pensive tread,
And pace the hollow rooms;
And feel (companion of the dead)
I'm living in the tombs.
My Childhood's Home I See Again (1844)
My childhood's home I see again,
And sadden with the view;
And still, as memory crowds my brain,
There's pleasure in it too.
My Childhood's Home I See Again (1844)
But here's an object more of dread
Than ought the grave contains —
A human form with reason fled,
While wretched life remains. Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright,
A fortune-favored child —
Now locked for aye, in mental night,
A haggard mad-man wild.
My Childhood's Home I See Again (1844)