By winds that range too high to sweep the languid sails.

On through the frozen night, like a blind moth flying

With battered wing and bruisèd bloom into a light,

I dragged my ragged limbs, cared not if I were dying,

Knew not if I were dead, where cavernous crevasses,

And stony desperate passes snared, waylaid my tread:

In the roar of broken boulders split from rocky shoulders,

In the thunder of snow sliding, or under the appalling

Rending of glacier ice or hoarse cataracts falling:

And I knew not what could save me but the unholy guiding