Poems (Jackson)/Glimpses
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GLIMPSES.
S when on some great mountain-peak we stand,In breathless awe beneath its dome of sky,Whose multiplied horizons seem to lieBeyond the bounds of earthly sea and land,We find the circled space too vast, too grand,And soothe our thoughts with restful memoryOf sudden sunlit glimpses we passed byToo quickly, in our feverish demandTo reach the height,—So, darling, when the brinkOf highest heaven we reach at last, I thinkEven that great gladness will grow yet more glad,As we, with eyes that are no longer sad,Look back, while Life's horizons slowly sink,To some swift moments which on earth we had.