Checking the finer spirits that refuse
To flow, when purposes are lightly changed?
A length of journey yet remains untraced:
Let us proceed."[123] Then, pointing with his staff
Raised toward those craggy summits,[124] his intent
He thus imparted:—
"In a spot that lies
Among yon mountain fastnesses concealed,[BM]
You will receive, before the hour of noon,
Good recompense, I hope, for this day's toil,