Excelsior
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1841) — a poem card from Justes Mots
A youth climbs past every warning with one strange word on his banner — higher — and will not be talked down.
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
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Themes: graduation · encouragement · new-chapter