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Irv Kroeker in San Francisco

Outdoors

The Alps

The towering Alps reach high to the sky,

Too tall for me, busy pursuer of life, to climb

 

But my gaze lingers there;

I long for something secure

Surely brought by on the wing of time.

 

Written in Oberammergau, Germany, 1960, during midday break at the Passion Play.