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MATTERHORN QUESTS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: AS MEN ESSAY THE MATTERHORN
Last Line: BIDS THEM TO CLIMB AND DO THEIR BEST.
Subject(s): ALPS; LABOR & LABORERS; MOUNTAINS; PAIN; SOUL; WORK; WORKERS; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN); SUFFERING; MISERY;
AS men essay the Matterhorn --
That peering peak of stone and snow --
To view, some matchless Alpine morn,
The petty world stretch far below,
Though after all their toil and pain
They can but clamber down again;

So yearning souls essay the heights
Of spirit, setting dangers by,
And recking naught of low delights
The flesh affords; you ask them why,
They know not; some divine unrest
Bids them to climb and do their best.



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