With the same pensive office; and make known

Through what perplexing labyrinths, abrupt

Precipitations, and untoward straits,

The earth-born wanderer hath passed; and quickly,

That respite o'er, like traverses and toils

Must he again encounter.[282]—Such a stream

Is human Life; and so the Spirit fares

In the best quiet to her[283] course allowed;

And such is mine,—save only for a hope

That my particular current soon will reach