His zeal on these points, I think, made him blind to the great issues involved in our late civil war, and led his usually clear and liberal judgment astray.

You have seen how religion was introduced in Emma's education, and how this religion, false in a thousand ways, could not hold Emma from the bent that carried her astray.

Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny.

They flew hither and thither, to entice one another astray.

Then inward turn at once thy searching eyes; Thence shalt thou see the central truth arise From which no lofty soul goes e'er astray; There shalt thou miss no needful guiding sign For conscience lives, and still its light divine Shall be the sun of all thy moral day.

"Oft at the close of summer day, When Daphne wander'd by, I've left my little flock astray, And follow'd with a sigh.