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Resurgam.

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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.

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