Our national parks . hours of thenight. Thus the volume of the upper rivers,even in flood time, is nearly doubled during theday, rising and falKng as regularly as the tidesof the sea. At the height of flood, in the warm-est June weather, they seem fairly to shout forjoy, and clash their upleaping waters togetherlike clapping of hands; racing down the canonswith white manes flying in glorious exuberanceof strength, compelling huge sleeping bouldersto wake up and join in the dance and song toswell their chorus. Then the plants also are in flood; the hiddensap singing into leaf and flower, respon
Our national parks . hours of thenight. Thus the volume of the upper rivers,even in flood time, is nearly doubled during theday, rising and falKng as regularly as the tidesof the sea. At the height of flood, in the warm-est June weather, they seem fairly to shout forjoy, and clash their upleaping waters togetherlike clapping of hands; racing down the canonswith white manes flying in glorious exuberanceof strength, compelling huge sleeping bouldersto wake up and join in the dance and song toswell their chorus. Then the plants also are in flood; the hiddensap singing into leaf and flower, responding asfaithfully to the call of the sun as the streamsfrom the snow, gathering along the outspreadroots like rills in their channels on the moun-tains, rushing up the stems of herb and tree,swirling in their myriad cells Hke streams in pot-holes, spreading along the branches and break-ing into foamy bloom, while fragrance, like afiner music, rises and flows with the winds. About the same may be said of the spring j. A MOUNTAIN STREAM IN JUNE(Merced Creek and Vernal Falls, Yosemite) FOUNTAINS AND STREAMS 257 gladness of blood when the red streams surgeand sing in accord with the swelling plants andrivers, inclining animals and everybody to travelin hurrahing crowds like floods, while exhilarat-ing melody in color and fragrance, form andmotion, flows to-the heart through all the quick-ening senses. In early summer the streams are in brightprime, running crystal clear, deep and full, butnot overflowing their banks, — about as deepthrough the night as the day, the variation somarked in spring being now too slight to benoticed. Nearly all the weather is cloudless sun-shine, and everything is at its brightest,—lake,river, garden, and forest, with all their warm,throbbing life. Most of the plants are in fullleaf and flower; the blessed ousels have builttheir mossy huts, and are now singing theirsweetest songs on spray-sprinkled ledges besidethe waterfalls. In tranquil, mellow aut
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