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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SUMMIT, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should you seek to scale mount everest?
Last Line: Sublimely I shall stand alone with god.
Subject(s): Everest, Mount
First Line: Why should you seek to scale mount everest?
Last Line: Sublimely I shall stand alone with god.
Subject(s): Everest, Mount
"Why should you seek to scale Mount Everest?"
They cry who blind and dreamless cannot know
What fires of glory and of splendor glow
Upon that lonely height, who think the crest
And summit of the world a waste of snow,
A wilderness -- no more, who have not guessed
It is the Peak of Vision where the quest
Shall end with stars and suns to crown the brow.
Oh, I shall laugh to see the moon arise
And look upon me with a startled gaze!
Monarch of earth, invader of the skies,
Triumphant I shall sing my diapase.
While far below men crawl in clay and clod,
Sublimely I shall stand alone with God.
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