O that our souls could scale a height like this,
A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak
Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak
Above the blinding clouds of prejudice,
Would we could see all truly as it is;
The calm eternal truth would keep us meek.

A Hill-Top View (1904); This is one of his earliest poems, printed in the the Aurora, a student publication of Occidental College.