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