peregrinate

He came first to recognise, then finally to know and to feel, that just as the atoms of his own physical body peregrinate by efflux and influx in and out of his body, so does he as a human ‘life-atom’ or human Monad peregrinate by unceasing influx and efflux in and out of the regular series of his earth-lives which succeed one another uninterruptedly during his sojourn in a Planetary Round on this globe Earth of the planetary chain, and much, very much, more.

As their brood grew, Annie and Thomas Barnacle peregrinated through a tight circle of tenements and small houses at shabby addresses in the heart of Galway: Abbeygate Street, Raleigh Row, Newtownsmyth.

History records no popular tumult, except of tongues, about the matter, but Jesse Hand never fully regained the regard of some people, and jealousy and distrust, like a curse, followed his new-fangled equipage; and though he and his generation are long since dead, yet the writer hath knowledge of traditions that, still drawn by attenuated and discouraged equines, a very Wandering Jew of vehicles, Jesse Hand’s carriage still peregrinates, at a toilsome pace, the interminable, sandy, woodland roads of Jersey.

It is no longer hindered by any pride of race and can truthfully declare its readiness to “peregrinate every condition of man—with equal joy the lowest.”

Anyway, as fledgling and as veteran, as man and as woman, as journalist and as aspirant littérateur, throughout my half-century I peregrinated the world and wrote about it.

Other apprentices on this pilgrimage have been the worldly Squire to the peregrinate Knight to whom are juxtaposed the peregrinate Second Nun to the worldly Prioress.