XXXIV.

Thus in grave converse did they pass the day,

Till night returning brought them slumbers sweet;

And, with the morrow, shone the sun’s broad ray

Serenely down on Waban’s lone retreat.

Then Williams might have journeyed on his way,

But doubt and darkness still restrained his feet;

And so with Waban made he further stay

To learn about the tribes that round him lay.

XXXV.