Question

Read this stanza again:

Oh! the old swimmin'-hole! In the happy days of yore,
When I ust to lean above it on the old sickamore,
Oh! it showed me a face in its warm sunny tide
That gazed back at me so gay and glorified,
It made me love myself, as I leaped to caress
My shadder smilin' up at me with sich tenderness.
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.


The second stanza of the poem

describes the swimming hole
describes how the boy has changed
describes the speaker as a boy
describes how the swimming hole has changed

Answer 1

Well, the stanza does describe the swimming hole and the speaker as a boy. But I believe the point of the passage is to display how the boy has changed. 

Answer 2

Answer: describes how the boy has changed.

The main purpose of the stanza is to show how the boy has changed. The narrator describes his memories as a boy, when he used to go to the swimming hole. He has beautiful memories, and it makes him happy to remember them. However, he then says that time has taken his toll, and that the boy is now an old man. The stanza, therefore, describes how the passage of time has changed the boy.