You did not walk with me Of late to the hill-top tree By the gated ways, As in earlier days;
You were weak and lame, So you never came, And I went alone, and I did not mind, Not thinking of you as left behind.
I walked up there to-day Just in the former way:
Surveyed around The familiar ground By myself again:
What difference, then?
Only that underlying sense Of the look of a room on returning thence.