EVEREST
"HUS, to a passion icy as its slope Pursuing through the dread determined years, Countering menace with a crafty hope, And with axe cleaving the compelling fears, It makes submission like the man-taught seas, Or the wild lands that lean into his breast, And sovereignty puts off its pageantries As a new crown salutes the lowered crest, It has conceded to a creeping fate And the august is mingled with the commonAs when a man, for long accounted great, Is once caught stooping and proclaimed as human. There is a sigh, purging the pride of all,
That Everest the adamant should fall.
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 14
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106EVEREST New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 14
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