“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.”

“And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.”

“The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.”

“How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning.”

“And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!”

“Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?”

“Mountain is mountain.”

“That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could h...”