Sadak in Search
Having lost his wife Kalasrade
to an evil sultan,
the brave Eastern nobleman Sadak
goes in search of
the Waters of Oblivion to save her.
The waters are to be drawn
from the tip of a precipitous
volcano and without them Sadak
can not be reunited with Kalasrade.
TALES OF GENNI
Rev. James Ridley
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Wanderer Looking over the Sea of Fog
To see the clouds his spirit yearned toward so
Over new mountains piled and unploughed waves,
Back of old-storied spires and architraves
To watch Arcturus rise or Fomalhaut
THE WANDERER
Alan Seeger

The Bard
After the wolves and before the elms
the bardic order ended in Ireland.
Only a few remained
to continue a dead art
in a dying land:
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The White Knight

A Pilgrim
It is obvious that man is himself a traveler;
that the purpose of this world
is not "to have and to hold"
but "to give and serve."
There can be no other meaning."
Wilfred T. Grenfell

The Adventurer

The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson
The ships are lying in the bay,
The gulls are swinging round their spars;
My soul as eagerly as they
Desires the margin of the stars.
So much do I love wandering,
So much I love the sea and sky,
That it will be a piteous thing
In one small grave to lie.
THE WANDERER
Zoe Aikens
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Parsifal in Quest of the Holy Grail

The Lone Scout
The fleet-foot Marri scout, who comes
To tell how he hath heard afar
The measured roll of English drums
Beat at the gates of Kandahar.
AVE IMPERITRIX
Oscar Wilde

The Gypsy
There are men and women
who are in life
as the wild river
and the night-owl,
as the blasted tree
and the wind over ancient graves.
Charles Leland

An Old-World Wanderer

The Knight Errant
The Knight-Errant---
errant meaning wandering or roving.
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Tate Collection
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For knighthood is not in the feats of warre,
As for to fight in quarrel right or wrong,
But in a cause which truth can not defarre*: [defeat]
He ought himself for to make sure and strong
Justice to keep mixt with mercy among:
And no quarrel a knight ought to take
But for a truth, or for a woman's sake.
KNIGHTHOOD
Stephen Hawes

St. Brendan
The Navigatio Sancti Brendani
(Voyage of Saint Brendan)
describes meetings with Saint Patrick
and Judas Iscariot, the latter clinging to a rock
during a temporary release from Hell.
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The Lost Explorer

The Isle of the Dead
Men honor what lies within
the sphere of their knowledge,
but do not realize how dependent
they are on what lies beyond it.
Chuang-tse
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