<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=536429" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIX</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A glorious triumph. On that day of days<br>When, standing on the summit's utmost edge<br>Of my first mountain--top, I viewed the maze<br>Which I had travelled upwards, ledge on ledge,<br>And all that wilderness of rock and plain<br>Rolled at my feet, and, when with heel fast set<br>On Nature's neck, I knew the giant slain,<br>My thrall, my prisoner, on the parapet,<br>I was transfigured. Slowly in me rose<br>The throb of courage as a sense new born.<br>``Even Man,'' I cried, ``Man's self, my foe of foes,<br>The phantom of my fears, shall feel my scorn<br>Yet in a nobler war.'' And trembling then<br>I seemed to stand, I too, a man with men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wilfrid+Scawen+Blunt">Wilfrid Scawen Blunt</a><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=536429" data-title="Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIX de Wilfrid Scawen Blunt" data-description="A glorious triumph. On that day of days When, standing on the summit's utmost edge Of my first mountain--top, I viewed the maze Which I had travelled upwards, ledge on ledge, And all that wilderness of rock and plain Rolled at my feet, and, when w..."></div> </div> </div>

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