XXXIII + 

Wanderings + 

Ere yet I left home’s youthful shrine, + 

My heart and hope were stored + 

Where first I caught the rays divine, + 

And drank the Eternal Word. + 

I went afar; the world unroll’d + 

Her many-pictured page; + 

I stored the marvels which she told, + 

And trusted to her gage. + 

Her pleasures quaff’d, I sought awhile + 

The scenes I prized before; + 

But parent’s praise and sister’s smile + 

Stirr’d my cold heart no more. + 

So ever sear, so ever cloy + 

Earth’s favours as they fade; + 

Since Adam lost for one fierce joy + 

His Eden’s sacred shade. + 