Then my heart leapt to days, when, a careless boy, 'Mid scenes of ambrosial Autumn roaming, The diamond gem of the Evening Star, Twinkling amid the pure South afar, Was gazed on with gushes of holy joy, As the cherub spirit that ruled the gloaming With glittering, golden eye.

i. 925. 'In wild unclear'd, to Muses a retreat, O'er ground untrod before, I devious roam, And deep enamour'd into latent springs Presume to peep at coy virgin Naiads.' 412.

The night was wearing on when Hedges, being tempted of one of the Devils which doubtless roam around this sulphurous region, or that perhaps followed Lieutenant Doane and myself down from that "high mountain apart" where the spirits roam, asked me if I was hungry.

And thus, letting his fancy roam, it seems, he was delighted to find that gradually the fears which had dominated him during the day and evening disappeared.

It was too late for the life of day, too early for the nocturnal roamings and voices of the creatures of the night.

"'Wanderer, | whither | wouldst thou | roam?