Distant home

You heard that labouring man who had served my
people. He said
Upon the open road, near to the Sligo quay -
No, no, not said, but cried it out- 'You have come again
And surely after twenty years it was time to come'.
I am thinking of a child's vow in vain
Never to leave that valley his fathers called their home.

William Butler Yeats
'Under Saturn'