BOOK ONE

 

‘What, you are stepping westward?’ – ‘Yea.’

– ’T would be a wildish destiny,

If we, who thus together roam

In a strange land, and far from home,

Were in this place the guests of Chance:

Yet who would stop, or fear to advance,

Though home or shelter he had none,

Wish such a sky to lead him on?

– Wordsworth