Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

WHEN I'M ALONE

'When I'm alone' - the words tripped off his tongue

As though to be alone were nothing strange.

'When I was young', he said, 'when I was young...'

I thought of age, and loneliness, and change,

I thought how strange we grow when we're alone,

And how unlike the selves that meet, and talk,

And blow the candles out, and say good - night,

Alone... The word is life endured and known.

It is the stillness where our spirits walk

And all but in most faith is overthrown.