Memory pictures of Puget Sound Region . asof chiseled marble, clean cut, unsoiled, justfrom the sculptors hand! Turning back roundthe circling ridge, following on and on pastmany a turret spire, which you could not passbut that you know you can come back to it, anddown here to the southward, rising up from theclustering hills at its base, boldly outlinedgainst the space behind, stands the old-timemonarch, Mt. Rainier—unchanged nor lessergrown. Something about the old mountainthere is that overawes you, and compels yourreverence, as does some great warrior who hasfought bravely and withstood th
Memory pictures of Puget Sound Region . asof chiseled marble, clean cut, unsoiled, justfrom the sculptors hand! Turning back roundthe circling ridge, following on and on pastmany a turret spire, which you could not passbut that you know you can come back to it, anddown here to the southward, rising up from theclustering hills at its base, boldly outlinedgainst the space behind, stands the old-timemonarch, Mt. Rainier—unchanged nor lessergrown. Something about the old mountainthere is that overawes you, and compels yourreverence, as does some great warrior who hasfought bravely and withstood the forces of theworld—the storms of years, and come out un-scathed, grown greater, more majestic, Rainier impresses you with its power andgrandeur. Drawing your charmed gaze fromthis at last, and following still around to thewestward, where nightly goes the golden orb 22 Memory Pictures. to rest behind those heavenly hills, you cometo the range we call the Proud Olympics—unique, exclusive, beautiful in extreme theyare. 23. THERE seemed nothing in the earth thatday but mountains. I could see or thinkof nothing else, and the more I studiedthem as the day grew on, the less could I tellwhether they were of the earth, or belongedto the Celestial City of the Heavens! Crystalwhite, glistening in the sunlight with supernalsplendor; some so high, so grand, so shining, Ithought if they were not indeed the Mansionson High, they must be the white, reflectedshadows of their very selves. And so I pic-tured them for my own delight! Here were great pyramids; there a longstraight palisade or portion of a wall in the dis-tance; at different points a tower set up for thewatchmen over the gates. The city seemed to 25 Memory Pictures. be peopled with all the great and small of life—crowned heads, rulers of kingdoms, and hum-bler folk as well. I could seem to see thecastles pinnacled and turreted with shininggold, and other dwellings less pretentious andmore lowly for those who loved
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