VI
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of The Flight
What father, this or mine, was he, who, on that summer day
When I had fall'n from off the crag we clamber'd up in play,
Found, fear'd me dead, and groan'd, and took and kiss'd me, and again
He kiss'd me; and I loved him then; he was my father then.