Careful Words

lane (n.)

lane (v.)

lane (adj.)

Ah, when shall all men's good

Be each man's rule, and universal peace

Lie like a shaft of light across the land,

And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,

Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Golden Year.

Straight down the crooked lane,

And all round the square.

Thomas Hood (1798-1845): A Plain Direction.