Pathless

"Thither we sailed, when, rising with the wave, / Orion dashed us on the shoals, the prey / of wanton winds, and mastering billows drave / our vessels on the pathless rocks astray. / We few have floated to your shore."

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.

"Learn then, Italia, that thou deem'st so near, / and thither dream's of lightly passing o'er, / long leagues divide, and many a pathless mere."

It was an old and pathless forest, and you could not keep anything like a straight course in it.