They searched everywhere, but could not find me; and great as my misery had been, my father's had been greater than mine.

While I stood forsaken and desolate in the field, they had been searching along the banks of the river.

But the herd had had an idea, and although they had already searched the barn and every place they could think of, he left them and ran back for a further search about the farm.

Guided by the scattered straw, he soon came upon my deserted lair, and sped back to the riverside with the news, when my father returned, and after failing to find me in my own bed, to his infinite relief found me fast asleep on his; so fast, that he undressed me and laid me in the bed without my once opening my eyes--the more strange, as I had already slept so long.

But sorrow is very sleepy.
Having thus felt the awfulness and majesty of the heavens at night, it was a very long time before I again dreamed my childish dream..