Fell sheer to plumbless horror steep, that swept
Spaceless, in ebon vastiness awide.
Surmounted it thus dizzily; o’erleapt
Fell chasms perilously athwart; abysms gaunt,
Remorseless bracken tarns, the desert’s haunt,
Each slippery spiss and slough, it overcame,
Winding and wending ever higher and higher
Tortuous yet steady-sure.
Even so, despite I could not see
Aught goal, withal its callow brow to daunt