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He sat by me in school His face is now	A
Vividly in my mind as if he went	B
From me but yesterday its pleasant smile	C
And the rich joyous laughter of his eye	D
And the free play of his unhaughty lip	E
So redolent of his heart He was not fair	F
Nor singular nor over fond of books	G
And never melancholy when alone	H
He was the heartiest in the ring the last	I
Home from the summer's wanderings and the first	J
Over the threshold when the school was done	K
All of us loved him We shall speak his name	L
In the far years to come and think of him	M
When we have lost life's simplest passages	N
And pray for him forgetting he is dead	O
Life was in him so passing beautiful	P
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His childhood had been wasted in the close	Q
And airless city He had never thought	R
That the blue sky was ample or the stars	S
Many in heaven or the chainless wind	T
Of a medicinal freshness He had learn'd	U
Perilous tricks of manhood and his hand	V
Was ready and his confidence in himself	W
Bold as a quarreller's Then he came away	X
To the unshelter'd hills and brought an eye	D
New as a babe's to nature and an ear	Y
As ignorant of its music He was sad	Z
The broad hill sides seem'd desolate and the woods	A2
Gloomy and dim and the perpetual sound	B2
Of wind and waters and unquiet leaves	C2
Like the monotony of a dirge He pined	T
For the familiar things until his heart	D2
Sicken'd for home and so he stole away	X
To the most silent places and lay down	E2
To weep upon the mosses of the slopes	F2
And follow'd listlessly the silver streams	G2
Till he found out the unsunn'd shadowings	G2
And the green openings to the sky and grew	H2
Fond of them all insensibly He found	B2
Sweet company in the brooks and loved to sit	I2
And bathe his fingers wantonly and feel	J2
The wind upon his forehead and the leaves	G2
Took a beguiling whisper to his ear	Y
And the bird voices music and the blast	I
Swept like an instrument the sounding trees	G2
His heart went back to its simplicity	K2
As the stirr'd waters in the night grow pure	L2
Sadness and silence and the dim lit woods	G2
Won on his love so well and he forgot	M2
His pride and his assumingness and lost	N2
The mimicry of the man and so unlearn'd	N2
His very character till he became	L
As diffident as a girl	O2
'Tis very strange	P2
How nature sometimes wins upon a child	N2
Th' experience of the world is not on him	M
And poetry has not upon his brain	Q2
Left a mock thirst for solitude nor love	R2
Writ on his forehead the effeminate shame	L
Which hideth from men's eyes He has a full	S2
Shadowless heart and it is always toned	N2
More merrily than the chastened voice of winds	G2
And waters yet he often in his mirth	T2
Stops by the running brooks and suddenly	K2
Loiters he knows not why and at the sight	N2
Of the spread meadows and the lifted hills	G2
Feels an unquiet pleasure and forgets	G2
To listen for his fellows He will grow	U2
Fond of the early star and lie awake	V2
Gazing with many thoughts upon the moon	W2
And lose himself in the deep chamber'd sky	D
With his untaught philosophies It breeds	G2
Sadness in older hearts but not in his	G2
And he goes merrier to his play and shouts	G2
Louder the joyous call but it will sink	X2
Into his memory like his mother's prayer	F
For after years to brood on	Y2
Cheerful thoughts	G2
Came to the homesick boy as he became	L
Wakeful to beauty in the summer's change	P2
And he came oftener to our noisy play	X
Cheering us on with his delightful shout	N2
Over the hills and giving interest	N2
With his keen spirit to the boyish game	L
We loved him for his carelessness of himself	W
And his perpetual mirth and tho' he stole	Z2
Sometimes away into the woods alone	H
And wandered unaccompanied when the night	N2
Was beautiful he was our idol still	A3
And we have not forgotten him tho' time	B3
Has blotted many a pleasant memory	K2
Of boyhood out and we are wearing old	N2
With the unplayfulness of this grown up world	N2

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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