<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115124" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An imitation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As once I dreamed, methought I strayed<br> Within a snow-clad mountain's shade;<br> From whose far height the silence bore<br> One charméd word, "Excelsior!"<br> <br> And, as upon my soul it fell,<br> It bound me with a fearful spell;<br> It shut the sweet vale from my sight,<br> And called me up that dazzling height.<br> <br> I could not choose but heed its tone,<br> And climb that dreary path alone;<br> And now around me hung the gloom,<br> Where the storm-spirit makes his home.<br> <br> Upon my head the tempests beat;<br> Dark caverns opened at my feet;<br> The thunders rolled, the lightnings flashed<br> And fierce the swollen torrents dashed.<br> <br> 'Twas gained, that mountain's stormy pass;<br> But, chilled beside a mer de glace,<br> My heavy heart in vain would soar, --<br> The heart hears not "Excelsior!"<br> <br> The heart's home is the vale below,<br> Where kind words greet, where fond eyes glow;<br> It withers 'neath those frozen skies,<br> Where the aspiring thought would rise.<br> <br> Above me the eternal snows<br> In the cold sunlight's glare arose,<br> And a dread Presence seemed to brood<br> O'er the appalling solitude.<br> <br> But now, on that unquiet dream,<br> Did one of stateliest aspect beam;<br> Whose brow thought's kingly impress bore,<br> Whose soul thrilled to "Excelsior!"<br> <br> Though but one moment o'er my way<br> Did the bright form beside me stay;<br> In that pale brow and speaking eye,<br> Methought I saw my Destiny!<br> <br> And as, far up the heaven-crowned height,<br> Thou seem'dst to vanish from my sight;<br> Thine image yet beside me stood,<br> And filled the voiceless solitude.<br> <br> No longer drear that mountain waste.<br> For o'er its snows thy steps had passed;<br> No longer dread, in upper air,<br> That mountain's crest, for thou wert there!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115124" data-title="An imitation de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="As once I dreamed, methought I strayed/ Within a snow-clad mountain's shade;/ From whose far height the silence bore/ One charméd word, "Excelsior!"/ / And, as upon my soul it fell,/ It bound me with a fearful spell;/ It shut the sweet vale from ..."></div> </div> </div>

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