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WHAT AM I, AFTER ALL.

1   WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the          sound of my own name? repeating it over and          over;

I stand apart to hear—it never tires me.

2   To you, your name also;

Did you think there was nothing but two or three pro-          nunciations in the sound of your name?

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