“The Swiss Path” by Carl Spitteler, Switzerland (1845-1924)

Through mountain pass and icy ledge,

I walked the world’s precarious edge.

And found, at last, within the mist—

The self I had too long dismissed.

Spitteler, Nobel laureate in 1919, brought epic

grandeur to Swiss poetry with mythic depth.

From A Poem A Day: All Continental Europe

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