THE INTREPID TRAVELLER
I set forth toward the mountain. The morning hour inspired my steps, And 1 kept straight on toward the distant west, Where the mountain’s outline rose.
I reached it. My great dreams 'till lived; The vast, sun of splendour lit up my forehead; A conqueror, on the summit. 1 gazed toward the west, And 1 saw rising there another summit higher still.
Something like a wind of glory stimulated my steps; I vanquished the difficult frontiers of
the most remote west, In pursuit of a mountain, in pursuit of another mountain.
And as on every summit, above the same western horizon i The sun illuminates a new summit in front of me, I set forth to conquer that new mountain peak.
—Mario Bravo. Translated from the Spanish by Alice Stone Blackwell.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 9
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134THE INTREPID TRAVELLER Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 9
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