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From depth to height, from height to loftier height, / The climber sets his foot and sets his face, / Tracks lingering sunbeams to their halting-place, / And counts the last pulsations of the light. / Strenuous thro' day and unsurprised by night / He runs a race with Time, and wins the race, / Emptied and stripped of all save only Grace, / Will, Love, -- a threefold panoply of might. / Darkness descends for light he toiled to seek; / He stumbles on the darkened mountain-head, / Left breathless in the unbreathable thin air, / Made freeman of the living and the dead, -- / He wots not he has topped the topmost peak, / But the returning sun will find him there.