Mused

I mused on the meaning of his painting.

"So, are you all set for the big day?" "Yeah! I can't believe it will be my first day of high school!" cried Link enthusiastically. "I can't believe it, either," mused the King. "It's as if it was just yesterday. I was just teaching you how to add one and one. Now look at you... My little boy's becoming a man." "Huh?" Link said in surprise. "Being in high school makes me a man?" "Yeah, it sure does... Fari, give me my headache wine." "Oh boy!"

The next morning, Link woke up at seven o'clock, refreshed and brimming with anticipation. "Gee!" he stretched luxuriously and pressed the button on top of the Kingface alarm clock. "Oh boy, the day has finally come! I can't wait!" he mused on his way to the dining hall. "Morning, Link," the King gave him his typical greeting. "Munf-Munf? We ran outta Linky-O's. Gwonam has eaten them all." "Problem, guys?" said Gwonam with a smirk, but neither paid any attention to it. "Wow, thanks!" Link dug in enthusiastically, disregarding the strong taste that nearly made his eyes bulge. It was his own fault he let Gwonam beat him to it, after all.

Then, being left to themselves, they mused in silence upon the name of Love, which they had just heard for the first time.

Scarce out of sight of Sicily, they set / their sails to sea, and merrily ploughed the main, / with brazen beaks, when Juno, harbouring yet / within her breast the ever-ranking pain, / mused thus: "Must I then from the work refrain, / nor keep this Trojan from the Latin throne, / baffled, forsooth, because the Fates constrain?"

"But when, through sly Ulysses' envious hate, / he left the light – alas! the tale ye know –, / stricken, I mused indignant on his fate, / and dragged my days in solitude and woe."

So mused I, blind with anger, when in light / apparent, never so refulgent seen, / my mother dawned irradiate on the night, / confessed a Goddess, such her form, and mien / and starry stature of celestial sheen. / With her right hand she grasped me from above, / and thus with roseate lips: