"For my part, I feel that with regard to  nature I live a sort of border life, 

 on the confines of a world into            which I make occasional and      transient forays only.

 Unto a life which I call natural, 

 I  would gladly follow even a 

 will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and

 sloughs unimaginable, 

 but no moon nor firefly has shown  me the causeway to it ..."