Mardi Volume 1 Chapter 46 - The Chamois with a roving Commission

In which a repaired and lightly armed vessel, christened the Chamois, drifts serenely yet aimlessly through waters fragrant with the promise of exotic shores, while the narrator muses upon the gentle sway of destiny and the haunting memories that trail like shadows beneath the sunlit waves. The voyage unfolds with a dreamy tenderness amidst the balmy breeze, suggesting amidst the vague and shifting compass of intention a tender harbour found not in distant isles, but in the hand clasped in his own.