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When homeward bound, no thoughts of coming change,
Of brighter days, or sadder, vex'd his mind
Indifferent to Fate. With careless eyes
He saw the white cliffs of his native land,
His country! Yet so stern and cold and grey
This misty sole surviving mother seem'd
After the smiling violet-scented lands
Where he had linger'd, that he wonder'd why
He had so yearn'd to see those shores again.
He mused of home, and here a flash of pain
And sad remembrance clouded o'er his brow,
As he bethought him that no happy face
Would beam to welcome him. Anon his thoughts
Return'd in sadness to those bygone years
When, with the mother who had been to him
So much in youth, he had so lov'd the spot
He now approach'd thus carelessly. As yet
He had no thought of long abiding there,
But he was wearied of perpetual change
And exile, and he long'd to look again
On the once lov'd and still familiar scenes
Of his past boyhood; thus upon the day
Which look'd so bright to Constance in the woods,
But which was dim and misty near the coast,
Geoffrey returned to lonely Denzil Place.
Of brighter days, or sadder, vex'd his mind
Indifferent to Fate. With careless eyes
He saw the white cliffs of his native land,
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This misty sole surviving mother seem'd
After the smiling violet-scented lands
Where he had linger'd, that he wonder'd why
He had so yearn'd to see those shores again.
He mused of home, and here a flash of pain
And sad remembrance clouded o'er his brow,
As he bethought him that no happy face
Would beam to welcome him. Anon his thoughts
Return'd in sadness to those bygone years
When, with the mother who had been to him
So much in youth, he had so lov'd the spot
He now approach'd thus carelessly. As yet
He had no thought of long abiding there,
But he was wearied of perpetual change
And exile, and he long'd to look again
On the once lov'd and still familiar scenes
Of his past boyhood; thus upon the day
Which look'd so bright to Constance in the woods,
But which was dim and misty near the coast,
Geoffrey returned to lonely Denzil Place.
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