The Roar of the Mountain

This mountain that roars its release from the ice

From darkness and stillness and absence of life;

now magnet to writers and hikers and westerly clouds

to litterers and spray painters and tramping crowds.

Roar grandly Monadnock, your lesson a tower

of how burdens help bearers rise to the hour.

Roar proudly Monadnock, my great granite friend

of abiding endurance and ability to bend.

Will LaPage (1989)