Ponderment

Now, while in deep and serious Ponderment I watch’d the Motions of his next Intent, He wheel’d about, as one full bent to try The Matter in Dispute ’twixt him and I;

My bewildered mind was deep in ponderment, and the distant croaking of ravens blended in evil litany with my thoughts.

Dutifully and in a haze of ponderment I followed.