Maundering

• maunder: to speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle; to wander or walk aimlessly

• wandering poet: a minstrel

• The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society: A philosophical poem by Oliver Goldsmith. The opening lines are:

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheld, or wandering Po