Lonely I stood long: 't was clever

When you climbed, before men's eyes,

Spurned the earth and scaled the skies,

Gained my peak and grasped your prize.

Here you stood, then, to men's wonder;

Here you tire of standing? Kneel!

Cure what giddiness you feel,

This way! Do your senses reel?

Not unlikely! What rolls under?

Yawning death in yon abyss