The undeposed, erectly Victrix still!

"These steps ascend the labyrinthine stair

Whence, darkling and on all-fours, out I stand

Exalt and safe, and bid low earth adieu—

For so instructs 'Advice to who would climb:'"

And all at once the climbing landed him

—Where, is my story.

Take its moral first.

Do you advise a climber? Have respect

To the poor head, with more or less of brains