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Image design Lavender
Read & copy
“In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.”
Meaning & context
The speaker takes the waterfowl’s guided migration as a religious image of trust that his own solitary path can also have direction.
Source details
“To a Waterfowl,” represented in Project Gutenberg #29700. The closing lines explicitly infer providential guidance from the bird’s flight; the claim remains Christian-inflected lyric reflection, not evidence about supernatural intervention.