Chronicles of the White Mountains . THE FLUME, BEFORE THE BOULDER FELL The Boulder (shown lodged between the Walls) fell into the Stream during a Storm and Flood in June, 1883 CHRONICLES OF THEWHITE MOUNTAINS BY FREDERICK W. KILBOURNE WttA Illustrations. BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1916 f\r IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS Mountains in whose vast shadows live great names,On whose firm pillars rest mysterious dawns,And sunsets that redream the apocalypse;A world of billowing green that, veil on veil,Turns a blue mist and melts in lucent skies;A silent world, save for slow waves of
Chronicles of the White Mountains . THE FLUME, BEFORE THE BOULDER FELL The Boulder (shown lodged between the Walls) fell into the Stream during a Storm and Flood in June, 1883 CHRONICLES OF THEWHITE MOUNTAINS BY FREDERICK W. KILBOURNE WttA Illustrations. BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1916 f\r IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS Mountains in whose vast shadows live great names,On whose firm pillars rest mysterious dawns,And sunsets that redream the apocalypse;A world of billowing green that, veil on veil,Turns a blue mist and melts in lucent skies;A silent world, save for slow waves of sudden, hollow clamor of huge rocksBeaten by valleyed waters manifold; —Airs that to breathe is life and joyousness;Days dying into music; nights whose starsShine near, and large, and lustrous; these, 0 these,These are for memory to lifes ending hour. Richard Watson Gilder PREFACE Allen H. Bent, in the Introduction to his ad-mirable Bibliography of the White Mountains, pub-lished in 1911, makes the doubtless somewhat sur-prising remark that the White Mountains . .have had more written about them, probably, thanany other mountains, the Alps alone one seeks an explanation for this circum-stance, that a district of so limited area
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