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The Return

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 15, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 15.

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The Return

By John Burroughs

HE sought the old scenes with eager feet,— The scenes he had known as a boy; “O for a draft of those fountains sweet, And a taste of that vanished joy!”
He roamed the fields, he mused by the streams, He threaded the paths and lanes; On the hills he sought his youthful dreams, In the woods to forget his pains.
O sad, sad hills! O cold, cold hearth! In sorrow he learned thy truth,— One may go back to the place of his birth; He cannot go back to his youth.
— John Burroughs, in The Independent.