Childe Roland, Concluded

[close reading] How to read: Ronald Dworkin's idea that we should read a work as the best work it could possibly be.  What would make Roland as good as it could be?  That he's the quester, and that he succeeds, and that the line he succeeds in reaching - hiding in plain sight - he reaches adequately, unlike those fairy tale goals that the hero gets to in the wrong way and must depart from in order to get to them in the magical way.  Adequately here means that it's the best line it could be, as mysterious as in the original.