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TO F. L. P.
As one who wanders in a lonely land, / Through all the blackness of a stormy night, / Now stumbling here, now falling there outright, / And doubts if it be worse to stir or stand, / Not knowing what abysses yawn at hand, / What torrents roar beyond some beetling height;
Yet scales the top to find the dawn in sight, / And Earth kissed into radiance with its wand: / So, wandering hopeless in the darkness, I, / Scarce recking whither led my painful way, / Or whether I should faint or strive to prove / If 'yond the mountain-top some path might lie, / Climbed boldly up the steep, and lo! the Day / Broke into pearl and splendor in thy love.