Surely, O friends, where brancheth into twain + 

One track, in wilderment have I in vain + 

Sought the straight path I travelled hitherto! + 

Was it some wind that from the right course blew + 

Me, as a boat drifts chartless o’er the sea? + 

Nay, Muse, ’tis thine, if thou for silver fee + 

Didst covenant to uplift thy voice in singing, + 

To send it this way now, now that way ringing, + 