Careful Words

astray (n.)

astray (v.)

astray (adv.)

Misled by fancy's meteor ray,

By passion driven;

But yet the light that led astray

Was light from heaven.

Robert Burns (1759-1796): The Vision.

I walk unseen

On the dry smooth-shaven green,

To behold the wandering moon

Riding near her highest noon,

Like one that had been led astray

Through the heav'n's wide pathless way;

And oft, as if her head she bow'd,

Stooping through a fleecy cloud.

John Milton (1608-1674): Il Penseroso. Line 65.