At the very beginning, the poet talks about the water from the springs that he hears for the first time after five years. <u>As he is revisiting the place after these five years and he describes the waters that roll from these mountain springs as having "soft inland murmur". </u>
In the next lines, he describes then the other things he sees around in the nature that he has not seen in five years - skies, cliffs, ground, etc.
American soldiers after the war had been put out to the streets and mistreated after the war and had all decided to become a very large group of people to write books about the war and how bad it was and what their experiences were and what they had to go through to win the war in order to keep America free.
