Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79.
Himalaya
By John Bruce Norton (1815–1883)A
Of Himalaya, on one vapory morn,
I saw stand on a peak, rugged and torn,
A giant figure, vast and dim and strange,
As is the Brocken Spectre: what a change
Came o’er my vision, when the sun had shorn
The mists away, and I, much nearer borne,
Beheld the golden lights and clouds arrange
Their glory round no Spirit, but a man:
New hopes beat down and banished false alarms;
I longed for converse in that lonely place:
Toward my fellow-creature swift I ran:
My heart leaped up when I beheld his face;
And lo! I clasped my brother in my arms.