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.

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.