Oft perilous, always tiresome; . . .

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As we for most uncertain gain ascend

Toward the clouds, dwarfing the world below,

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. . . contending for regard!

Lo! there a dim Egerian grotto fringed

With ivy-twine, profusely from its brows

Dependant,—enter without further aim;

And . . .