I revolve in
pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach."
In 1855, the Duwamish chief, Chief Seattle, famous to white people for a benign speech about caring for the earth, also gave a speech that said, "And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the white man, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the
pathless woods, they will not be alone ...
The violin doubles the quiet, plaintive vocal line at the upper octave until the middle section, where it adds double stop sixths, the upper note doubling the voice at the unison, intensifying the gloom of "
pathless ways." The voice sings the last phrase alone, followed by the opening violin figuration.
228; Marysa Demoor, "'His Way is thro' Chaos and the Bottomless and
Pathless': The Gender of Madness in Alfred Tennyson's Poetry," Neophilologus 86 (2002): 331.
O dreamer that I may plunge / Into pure and
pathless delight Know how to keep my wing in your hand / By a subtle falsehood A twilight coolness / Comes to you at each fluttering (battement; "beating"), Whose captive stroke (coup prisonnier) / Delicately pushes back the horizon.
It's when I'm weary of considerations, And life is too much like a
pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs Broken across it, and one eye is weeping From a twig's having lashed across it open.
Optimizing power consumption of WSN can bring three advantages: (1) reducing sensing interrupts due to battery exhaustion, (2) diminishing maintenance fees of replacing batteries, and (3) lessening trouble in replacing the batteries of the sensors installed in a
pathless area.
And it's a stiff push up rugged,
pathless ground in surroundings that could be a real test in mist.
There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that
pathless coast-- The desert and illimitable air-- Lone wandering, but not lost.
Let this, therefore, first of all be before our eyes: to see any other knowledge of predestination than what the Word of God discloses is not less insane than if one should purpose to walk in a
pathless waste, or to see in darkness" (McKim 112).
Tears sprang to her eyes, blotting him out, and with them she sprang forth into a
pathless darkness, conscious far away behind her, soon to be obliterated on the unknown shores opening ahead, but there gladly in hand, of a debt, signed and to be honoured even against her will, by life, surprised once more at this darkest moment, smiling at her secretly behind all she could gather of opposing reason and clamourous protests of unworthiness.