The narrator, a boy, tells of a beggar who comes to his home, introduces himself as B. Wordsworth, poet, and befriends him. A week later, the man invites the boy to his home, where they eat mangoes and talk. The man tells a story about a boy poet and a girl poet who fell in love. The girl poet and their unborn baby died, and the poet let his garden grow wild after that. The man and boy, who share a love of nature, become friends; the poet claims that the boy also has a poet’s eyes. One day the boy finds the old man very ill. The poet promises to tell a funny story if the boy agrees never to return. Then the man says that the story about the girl and boy poet was false. The tearful boy leaves, but a year later, he walks down the street and sees that the poet’s house is gone, as if the man never existed.