Where passage could be won;[CB] and, as the last
Of the mute train, behind[154] the heathy top
Of that off-sloping outlet,[CC] disappeared,
I, more impatient in my downward course,[155]
Had landed upon easy ground; and there
Stood waiting for my Comrade. When behold
An object that enticed my steps aside!
A narrow, winding, entry opened out[156]
Into a platform—that lay, sheepfold-wise,
Enclosed between an upright[157] mass of rock