text:  And could he have foreseen the day when they for whom at times he was sorely troubled should after many years of separation return to the hut where himself was born and near it within the shadow of his monument be welcomed for his sake by the lords and ladies of the land; and--dearer thought still to his manly breast--by the children and the children's children of people of his own degree whose hearts he sought to thrill by his first voice of inspiration; surely had the Vision been sweeter to his soul than even that immortal one in which the Genius of the Land bound the holly round his head the lyric crown that it will wear for ever