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To my native place     Bent upon returning,     Bosom all day burning     To be where my race     Well were known, 'twas much with me     There to dwell in amity.     Folk had sought their beds,     But I hailed: to view me     Under the moon, out to me     Several pushed their heads,     And to each I told my name,     Plans, and that therefrom I came.     "Did you? . . . Ah, 'tis true     I once heard, back a long time,     Here had spent his young time,     Some such man as you . . .     Good-night." The casement closed again,     And I was left in the frosty lane.

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