Read this stanza again:

Oh! the old swimmin'-hole! In the happy days of yore,

When I ust to lean above it on the old sickamore,

Oh! it showed me a face in its warm sunny tide

That gazed back at me so gay and glorified,

It made me love myself, as I leaped to caress

My shadder smilin' up at me with sich tenderness.

But them days is past and gone, and old Time's tuck his toll

From the old man come back to the old swimmin'-hole.

The second stanza of the poem

describes the swimming hole

describes how the boy has changed

describes the speaker as a boy

describes how the swimming hole has changed

Well, the stanza does describe the swimming hole and the speaker as a boy. But I believe the point of the passage is to display how the boy has changed.

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holesstanham holesstanham · Answer 2 · 2019-02-04T17:03:06-05:00

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04-02-2019

Answer: describes how the boy has changed.

The main purpose of the stanza is to show how the boy has changed. The narrator describes his memories as a boy, when he used to go to the swimming hole. He has beautiful memories, and it makes him happy to remember them. However, he then says that time has taken his toll, and that the boy is now an old man. The stanza, therefore, describes how the passage of time has changed the boy.

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