Slowly the poem moves into the underworld ("It was the age of ghosts"), where it meets, among others, Louis O'Neill, one of the murdered dead in the Troubles, who is the subject of Heaney's earlier poem "Casualty" and wanders in a world of shady memory to emerge in a final poem about the birth of a first grandchild.
I wore a lamb fur coat and wandered in a sort of daze past the people and places on my way.
Keeping mind in Roland Barthe's idea that the best stories are those which are open to widely varying interpretations, Beaucage's sweet and sweepingly painted characters meet, flirt and wander in a loosely brushed Rococo paradise that opens up myriad narrative possibilities.
Sahil Saeed was released by his captors two weeks later, and found wandering in a field 25 miles from where he was snatched.
But on Tuesday "This Nearly Was Mine" was rearranged as a quieter pop song with jazz chords that undercut its stentorian authority and left Mr. Szot wandering in a stylistic and interpretive wilderness.
A trail, the naturalist Ernest Ingersoll wrote, is a "happy promise to the anxious heart that you are going somewhere, and are not aimlessly wandering in a circle".
He was later found wandering in a delirium and died in a hospital in Baltimore, the city where he had spent some of his early, struggling years.
He abandoned the house he had designed and built in upstate New York, and wandered in Alaska, Texas, and Newfoundland before finding a tenuous stability in Naples.
Later still, in 1987, she broke out of jail and wandered in the West Virginia woods for a couple of days.
If you find yourself unable to resist its charms and wander in, you will be confronted by a bewildering array of sweets.
"There's not really a difference between traditional applications and how they encourage productivity, and wandering around in a forest killing bears and gathering furs," he said.
