The Singers' Companion/The Way-worn Traveller

THE WAY-WORN TRAVELLER.

Faint and wearily, the way-worn traveller
Plods uncheerily, afraid to stop;
Wandering drearily, a sad unraveller
Of the mazes t’ ward the mountain’s top.
Doubting, fearing, while his course he’s steering;
Cottages appearing, as he’s nigh to drop;
O ! how briskly then the way-worn traveller
Treads the maizes t’ward the mountain’s top.

Though so melancholy day has pass’d by,
'Twould be folly now to think on’t more;
Blythe and jolly he the cag holds fast by,
As he’s sitting at the goat-herd’s door:
Eating, quaffing—at past labours laughing——
Better far, by half, in spirits than before
O! how merrily the rested traveller
Seems, while sitting at the goat-herd’s door.