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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: our situation was given forth; and you could hear by the voices that
took up the burden how the sentiment came home to each, 'The Anchor's
Weighed' was true for us. We were indeed 'Rocked on the bosom of the
stormy deep.' How many of us could say with the singer, 'I'm lonely
to-night, love, without you,' or, 'Go, some one, and tell them from
me, to write me a letter from home'! And when was there a more
appropriate moment for 'Auld Lang Syne' than now, when the land, the
friends, and the affections of that mingled but beloved time were
fading and fleeing behind us in the vessel's wake? It pointed
forward to the hour when these labours should be overpast, to the
return voyage, and to many a meeting in the sanded inn, when those
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