The Prelude

• "(Led by her)."
• "An act of stealth and troubled pleasure."
• "Small circles glittering idly in the moon, until they melted all into one track of sparkling light."
• "Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point with an unswerving line."
• "Heaving through the water like a swan."
• "Like a living thing, strode after me."
• "There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion."
• "Trouble to my dreams."