Thou shalt behold her in a loftier place,

This mountain summit, smiling and serene.”

“Good Guide,” said I, “then let us mend our pace,

I feel no more my weariness: o'er us

The mountain shadow grows and hides mine own.”

“We will go forward”—he gave answer thus—

“Far as we can, ere this day's light be gone;

But thy thought wanders from the fact. That height

Ere thou canst gain, thou shalt behold the day's

Returning orb, who now so hides his light