Excerpt from Retrospect and Other Poems

Here beside my Paris fire, I sit alone and ponder
All my life of long ago that lies so far asunder,
"Here, how came I thence?" I say, and greater grows the wonder
As I recall the farms and fields and placid hamlets yonder.

... See, the meadow-sweet is white against the watercourses,
Marshy lands are kingcup-gay and bright with streams and sources,
Dew-bespangled shines the hill where half-abloom the gorse is,
And all the northern fallows steam beneath the ploughing horses.

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