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  • His father, like the boy in Blake's Songs of Innocence who is guided by the "wand'ring light" and finds his way back to a secure world, finally attains solace in his epileptic, vulnerable savior son.

    Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer 2007

  • Preferable far to make amends to you whom I have slighted and missed for so long, and start wand'ring again in the smile of sober amity.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Young Geoffrion 2008

  • When first I came to this Life, I passed long months wand'ring friendless and uninspired.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Young Geoffrion 2008

  • And yet: when the dialogue with the archangel is over and Adam and Eve leave Paradise, 'They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow,/Through Eden took their solitary way'.

    Archbishop preaches about John Milton 2008

  • When first I came to this Life, I passed long months wand'ring friendless and uninspired.

    At Last Young Geoffrion 2008

  • Preferable far to make amends to you whom I have slighted and missed for so long, and start wand'ring again in the smile of sober amity.

    Surfacing Young Geoffrion 2008

  • Too many faithless, fickle men with cruel intent and wand'ring eye;

    Archive 2007-01-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • Too many faithless, fickle men with cruel intent and wand'ring eye;

    Breaking Faith with Aengus óg Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • Oh no, it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken, it is the star to every wand'ring bark, whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

    2003-06-25 : CXVI calimae 2003

  • You are the fire of my nights, the light of my days, and the end of my wand'ring ways.

    The Towers of the Sunset Modesitt, L. E. 1992

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