Adversity Is The First Path

And Doubt And Discord Step 'twixt Thine And Thee.

Nothing So Difficult As A Beginning In Poesy, Unless Perhaps The End.

Alas! How Deeply Painful Is All Payment!

Are Not The Mountains, Waves, And Skies As Much A Part Of Me, As I Of Them?

Glory, Like The Phoenix 'midst Her Fires, Exhales Her Odours, Blazes, And Expires.