Make ends meet

art such rapture canst thou earn? Only resolve with courage stern and high,

Thy visage from the radiant sun to turn! Dare with determin'd will to burst the

portals Past which in terror others fain would steal! Now is the time, through

deeds, to show that mortals The calm sublimity of gods can feel; To shudder

not at yonder dark abyss, Where phantasy creates her own self - torturing

brood, Right onward to the yawning gulf to press, Around whose narrow

jaws rolleth hell's fiery flood; With glad resolve to take the fatal leap, Though

danger threaten thee, to sink in endless sleep! Pure crystal goblet! forth I