Songs of the Rockies . owing leagues of mountain to oershroud. In early dawn, thy mighty mistlike wingsRise dim and vasty from the vapored night. And lofty soaring the star lamped world , morn-bedewed, the Sun-gods golden light. All day thy eidered bosom rides the sky. Tranquil swimming turquoise seas of , the Continental ranges high Lie veiled beneath thy luminous shadow. Youre brooding there, this afternoon, great Auk, Of Natures creation, what mystery?To descend with the setting sun and hatch. By night, what wondrous egg of alchemy? 51 THE WILD WHITE WILDERNESS WHITE,
Songs of the Rockies . owing leagues of mountain to oershroud. In early dawn, thy mighty mistlike wingsRise dim and vasty from the vapored night. And lofty soaring the star lamped world , morn-bedewed, the Sun-gods golden light. All day thy eidered bosom rides the sky. Tranquil swimming turquoise seas of , the Continental ranges high Lie veiled beneath thy luminous shadow. Youre brooding there, this afternoon, great Auk, Of Natures creation, what mystery?To descend with the setting sun and hatch. By night, what wondrous egg of alchemy? 51 THE WILD WHITE WILDERNESS WHITE, funereal, spreads the winter the pale moons pines, ghostly hooded with snows so in the silent , unearthly—weird shadows shroud the sight; And stars do coldly gleamTheir diamond sparks on frost-helmed, ice-mailedheightsStern wardering the scene. Twould seem that a soul born of holiness. On wing to Paradise,Were soft crossing the wild white wilderness. To mount the silent 52 I I KNOW A PLACE KNOW a place where fairies throng, In a sylvan, verdured grove;Where thrushes pipe their vesper elves and wood nymphs rove. I know a place where orchids ferns most delicate and rare; Where the wildest winds that ever blowNeer reach this bosky dell so fair. I know a place where a little fawn Is hid by its mother deer;And too, where speckled beauties spawn, In a lakelet bright and clear. I know a place where a boulder conceals an ousels nest; And where a spruce so boughed and there a home could neat install. Yet of all the spots that I love best—Of purest thoughts and sweetest rest. It is my own unworthy soul, Where Christ shines in His aureole. 53 Feiv peaks of Northern Colorado are more inspiringthan those of the Twin Sisters, which form the easternrim of Elkanah Valley, and occupy a prominent cen^tral position immediately to the west of Longmont,Berthoud, and Loveland. 54 THE TWIN SISTERS FROM Longmont
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