THE BLIND SUMMIT.
LA Viennese gentleman, who had climbed the Hoch.Konig without a guide, was found dead, in a sitting posture, near the summit, upon which he had written, "It is cold and clouds shut out the view."—Fide the Daily News of September 10th, 1891.1
So mounts the child of ages of desire, Man, up the steeps of Thought ; and would behold Yet purer peaks, touched with uneartblier fire, In sudden vision virginally new ; But on the lone last height he sighs : " 'Tis cold, And clouds shut out the view."
Ah, doom of mortals ! Vexed with phantoms old, Old phantoms that waylay us and pursue,— Weary of dreams,—we think to see unfold The eternal landscape of the Real and True ; And on our Pisgah can but write : " 'Tis cold, And clouds shut out the view."
WILLIAM WATSON-.
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