They all did say, 'We know the way to go.'
And when I did demur, they did in turn deride.
'Yet still', I cried, 'I do not know;
That I shall trust you as a guide.'

'Suppose ten billion locusts take to wing,
Whole swarms will perish by the way.
Therefore are they right in everything?
This is the answer I can neither know; nor say.'