The Mind
Rare Moments
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
The Mind
Each of us is like Balboa: once in all our lives do we,
Gazing from some tropic summit, look upon an unknown sea;
But upon the dreary morrow, every way our footsteps seek,
Rank and tangled vine and jungle block our pathway to the peak.
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Phelps, Charles Henry. “Rare Moments.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/phelps_ch/1/.
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Phelps, Charles Henry. “Rare Moments.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/phelps_ch/1/.
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