“Along The Mazes Of This Song I Go”

This, and the next two fragments, by Wordsworth, are extracted from his sister’s Grasmere Journal.--ED.

Along the mazes of this song I go As inward motions of the wandering thought Lead me, or outward circumstance impels. Thus do I urge a never-ending way Year after year, with many a sleep between, Through joy and sorrow; if my lot be joy More joyful if it be with sorrow sooth’d.