I am visiting this website every couple of days at present - and I'm fascinated by just how many people, like me, are deeply touched by this poem, and just how many of us are now adding our thoughts to this page: observations about both the poem itself and our first associations with it. So, over a century after it was written, and some forty to fifty years after many of us first encountered it, here we are today, sharing our thoughts and feelings about it. The synchronicity of these shared responses is something which I find as moving, in a way, as the poem itself....