| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Switzerland | | By Lilla (Cabot) Perry |
| | | WHERE snowy peaks on peaks reach to the sky, | |
| And giant solitudes stretch far around, | |
| Where undulating whiteness on the ground | |
| And clouds scarce whiter far above me lie, | |
| What is it that so lifts my soul on high? | 5 |
| While all is silence but for the faint sound | |
| Of mountain torrents in yon chasm profound | |
| That seek the ocean, though they know not why. | |
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| Great Life above us all, does my soul seek | |
| Thee, as the unconscious torrent seeks the sea? | 10 |
| Is it Thy greatness that I feel in me, | |
| This sense of life and beauty, that doth speak | |
| To every fibre of my bounding heart, | |
| That leaps to know Thee whole, myself a part? | | | | |
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