I'm going nuts...can someone help me find this poem??

[AllyandJack]

I had to memorize and recite a poem in the 8th grade. The first few lines went something like:

I was about to go, and said so; and I had almost started for the door;
But he was all alone in the sugar shack, and more lonely than he had ever been before.

I've been all over the Internet and if I don't find this poem, I'm going to be up all night!

HELP!

 

[monkeyboy]

http://www.poemhunter.com/

good luck

 

[damo]

I found this, is it similar? There is no reference to name, etc.

i was about to go, and said so;
And i had almost started for the door.
But he was all alone in the sugar-house,
And more lonely that he'd ever been before.
We'd talked for a half an hour, almost,
About the price of sugar, and how i liked my school,
And he had made me drink some syrup hot,
Telling me it was better that way than when cold.

And i agreed, and thanked him for it,
And said good-bye, and i was about to go.
Want to see where i was born?
He asked me quickly. How to say no?

The sugar-house looked over miles of valley.
he pointed with a sticky finger to a patch of snow
Where he was born. The house, he said, was gone.
I can understand these people better, now i know

This is the link:
http://annakey.tblog.com/