The Cliff
(P ILOT Mountain , Surrey C OUNTY , N ORTH C AROLINA .)
See yonder cliff — how ghastly bare.
Lightning has torn its rugged face.
It looks like one whom cursed care
Has robbed of every peaceful grace.
Yet how sublime! How proudly still!
Barren and thunder-beat and drear,
Behold the unconquerable will,
Dead to emotion — love or fear —
Unchanging when the rising sun
Gilds its high head with heavenly light,
Or when the red moon breaks upon
Its brow across the gulf of night.
See yonder cliff — how ghastly bare.
Lightning has torn its rugged face.
It looks like one whom cursed care
Has robbed of every peaceful grace.
Yet how sublime! How proudly still!
Barren and thunder-beat and drear,
Behold the unconquerable will,
Dead to emotion — love or fear —
Unchanging when the rising sun
Gilds its high head with heavenly light,
Or when the red moon breaks upon
Its brow across the gulf of night.
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