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. these lines from the poem suggest that the speaker has lost his memory has had a hard life is happy about growing old wants to forget the swimming hole

These lines from the poem suggest that the speaker has had a hard life.

Explanation:

This lines from "The Old Swimmin' Hole" By James Whitcomb Riley show the connection of the old mas with the swimmin' hole as he starts remembering the good old days when he was young and everything seemed so perfect and bright, now those are just memories in his mind and his heart of a better time than the one he lives now.

the god   the goddess of salt water, of fresh water   yet more powerful and perfect.

the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)