Of many minds, of minds and bodies too;

The history of many families;

How they had prospered; how they were o'erthrown

By passion or mischance, or such misrule

Among the unthinking masters of the earth

As makes the nations groan.

This active course

He followed till provision for his wants

Had been obtained;—the Wanderer then resolved[51]

To pass the remnant of his days, untasked