That turn your eyes to all the peaks that shine,

Hailing in each the citadel divine

The which ye thought to have enter’d long ago;

Until at length your feeble steps and slow

Falter upon the threshold of the shrine,

And your hearts overburden’d doubt in fine

Whether it be Jerusalem or no:

Dishearten’d pilgrims, I am one of you;

For, having worshipp’d many a barren face,

I scarce now greet the goal I journey’d to: