At danger's call the sympathetic bond
Leaps to the surface, as the waves respond
When one has tossed a pebble in a pond;
For man has ever since the world began
Laid down his life to save his fellow-man;
Heroes are they, no praise commensurate,
Who do their duty in the face of fate.
Through gloomy forests, intricate and dark,
Which skirt the confines of the mountain park,
With arduous climb and hazardous ascent