In the middle of the road of our life
I wandered upon a dark wood a gloomy wood
a dark wood within a darksome wood
a gloomy wood a wood so drear
a forest dark a darkling wood within
wood obscure gloomy wood
darksome wood a darkling
wood a forest dark and deep
a dark wood through a night-dark
wood within a darksome wood
forest dark shadowy wood
darksome wood dusky wood
a forest in darkness
darksome wood gloomy wood
a darkling wood astray
dark wood dark forest
gloom-dark wood within
dark wood dark wood dark wood
a dark wood unfathomable
dark wood dark woods wood so dark
within a shadowed forest
a great forest bewildered inside
dark wood in a dark wood
wood in this dark wood
dark woods in darkened forests
dark wood dark wood dark
wood sunless wood in a dark forest
dense cage of leaf, tree, and twig
that cut through our way like a knife
and we, we hardly knew the difference.