. Home geography for primary grades . THE WANDERER. Upon the mountains height, far from the sea, I found a shell,And to my curious ear this lonely thingEver a song of ocean seemed to sing— Ever a tale of ocean seemed to tell. How came this shell upon the mountain height? Ah, who can sayWhether there dropped by some too careless hand —Whether there cast when oceans swept the land Ere the Eternal had ordained the day? Strange, was it not? Far from its native sea, One song it sang —Sang of the mighty mysteries of the tide —Sang of the awful vast, profound and wide — Softly with echoes of the ocea
. Home geography for primary grades . THE WANDERER. Upon the mountains height, far from the sea, I found a shell,And to my curious ear this lonely thingEver a song of ocean seemed to sing— Ever a tale of ocean seemed to tell. How came this shell upon the mountain height? Ah, who can sayWhether there dropped by some too careless hand —Whether there cast when oceans swept the land Ere the Eternal had ordained the day? Strange, was it not? Far from its native sea, One song it sang —Sang of the mighty mysteries of the tide —Sang of the awful vast, profound and wide — Softly with echoes of the ocean rang. And as the shell upon the mountains height Sings of the do I ever, leagues and leagues away —So do I ever, wandering where I may, Sing, O my home—sing, O my home, of thee. — Helena BEFORE US RISES A HIGH MOUNTAIN. STORY OF A MOUNTAIN. Before us rises a high mountain. Its top iswhite with snow. Its sides are steep and rocky andvery hard to climb. What made the mountain ?Has it always been there or is it a little hill grownlarge and high ? Mountains really do grow. Is that not strange?They were once lower than they are now. Theybegan as little hills long ago and slowly kept gettinglarger. When mountains stop growing they do notremain always. They are wearing away and aftera long time may change to little hills again. Let ussee if we can understand how this is done. A moun-tain will interest us more when we know its story. 1C4 HOME GEOGRAPHY. 105 Some mountains are formed by the rising of thesolid land on which we live. The land wrinkles infurrows and ridges. You can see how this is doneby taking a piece of paper in your hands: when thepaper is stretched out it is even like a plain; shovethe opposite edges of the paper toward each otherand it will wrinkle. There wi
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