Ad Coelum

Excerpt from Ad Coelum
"Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown,
With that wild wheel we go not up or down
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.
Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands:
Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands;
For man is man, and master of his fate.
Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring crowd -
Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud:
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate." Tennyson.
The mists of early morning were lifted from the giant Alps of the Vallais, and the sun, just risen above the line of the eastern horizon, kindled with new-born beauty every feature of a view, of which few can be found more lovely and more sublime. From the garden in front of the "Trois Couronnes," at Vevay, an English traveller looked out upon the mountains and the blue lake of Geneva, as he paced the terrace-walk, his knapsack on his shoulder and his well-worn alpenstock in his hand.
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