Image: Hannes Mauerer: Zugspitzgebiet: The Zugspitze, at 9,718 feet above sea level, the highest mountain in Germany | (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

On the highest mountain

On the highest mountain
Nothing seems greater
Than the waste, the wilderness,
Horizons in a circle
Even to the sea —
Many though they be
Or become (and not),
Until the eyes see
Naught seems recompense:
There being none
Among the four corners —
It being most useless
Nearest to hand.