From out the wood and down the stream.

They came not, and he came to dream

Pursuit abandon'd, danger past.

He fell'd the oak, he built a home

Of new-hewn wood with busy hand,

And said, "My wanderings are told."

And said, "No more by sea, by land,

Shall I break rest, or drift, or roam,

For I am worn, and I grow old."

And there, beside that surging tide,