Answer:
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.