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Alfred Castner King

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Dedicated to the mountains of the San Juan district	A
Colorado as seen from the summit of Mt Wilson	B
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I stood at sunrise on the topmost part	C
Of lofty mountain massively sublime	D
A pinnacle of trachyte seamed and scarred	E
By countless generations' ceaseless war	F
And struggle with the restless elements	G
A rugged point which shot into the air	H
As by ambition or desire impelled	I
To pierce the eternal precincts of the sky	J
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Below outspread	I
A scene of such terrific grandeur lay	K
That reeled the brain at what the eyes beheld	I
The hands would clench involuntarily	L
And clutch from intuition for support	I
The eyes by instinct closed nor dared to gaze	M
On such an awful and inspiring sight	I
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The sun arose with bright transcendent ray	K
Up from behind a bleak and barren reef	N
His face resplendent with beatitude	I
Solar effulgence and combustive gleam	O
Bathing the scene in such a wealth of light	I
That none could marvel that primeval man	P
Rude and untaught whene'er the sun appeared	I
Fell down and worshiped	I
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A wilderness of weird fantastic shapes	Q
Of precipice and stern declivity	I
Of dizzy heights and towering minarets	R
Colossal columns and basaltic spires	S
Which pointing heavenward appeared to wave	T
In benediction o'er the depths beneath	U
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Uneven crags and cliffs of various form	V
Abysmal depths and dire profundities	S
Chasms so deep and awful that the eye	J
Of soaring eagle dare not gaze below	W
Lest dizzied he should lose his aerial poise	S
And headlong falling reach the gulf beneath	U
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Majestic turrets and the stately dome	X
Which ovaled by the slow but tireless hand	I
Of eons of disintegrating time	D
Still with impressive aspect rears its brow	Y
Defiant of mutation and decay	K
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The crevice deep and inaccessible	Z
Fissure and rent where the intrusive dike's	S
Creative and destructive agency	S
Leaves many an enduring monument	I
Of metamorphic and eruptive power	A2
Of molten deluge and volcanic flood	I
Fracture and break the silent stories tell	B2
Of dire convulsion in the ages past	I
Of subterranean catastrophe	S
And cataclysm of internal force	S
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The trachyte wall beseamed and battle scarred	I
The porphyritic tower and citadel	B2
The granite ramparts and embattlements	S
Of nature's fort impregnable and wild	I
Stand as a symbol of eternal strength	C2
And hurl a challenge to the elements	S
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Canons of startling and appalling depths	S
With caverns vast and gloomy which would seem	O
Meet for the haunt of centaur or of gnome	X
The gorgon and the labyrinthodon	P
The clumsy mammoth and the dinosaur	F
Or all gigantic and unwieldy shapes	S
Which earth has seen in the mysterious past	I
Would seem in more accord and harmony	P
With such surroundings than the puny form	V
Of insignificant conceited man	P
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And interspersed amid these solemn peaks	S
Lie many a pleasant vale and grassy slope	D2
Besprinkled with the drooping columbine	P
And fragrant growths of all harmonious tints	S
Whose variegated colors punctuate	I
Grandeur with beauty and fearless bloom	E2
In the forbidding shadow of the cliffs	S
And to the margin of the snowy combs	S
Which still resist the sun's persuasive ray	K
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A lakelet cool pellucid and serene	P
Fed by the drippings from eternal snows	S
Lies like a mirror 'neath a frowning cliff	F2
Or as a gem majestically ensconced	I
In diadem of crag and pinnacle	Z
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Down towards the distant valley's sultry clime	E2
Both solitary and in straggling groups	S
In solid phalanx rigid and compact	I
In labyrinth of branches interspread	I
Impervious to the rain and midday sun	P
In form spontaneous without regard	I
To law of uniformity there stand	I
In silent awe or whispering to the breeze	S
The sombre fir and melancholy pine	P
And many a denuded avenue	P
Of varying and considerable width	G2
Cut through the growth of balsam spruce and pine	P
Which stands erect and proud on either hand	I
Attests the swift and desolating force	S
Of fearful devastating avalanche	H2
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The mountain rill its pleasant music makes	S
As the descendant waters roll along	I2
In rhythmic flow and dulcet cantabile	Z
In various concord and harmonious pitch	J2
Pursuant of its journey to the sea	P
The murmuring treble of the rivulet	I
Uniting with the deep and ponderous bass	S
Of torrent wild and foaming cataract	I
The thunderous reverberating tones	S
And seething ebullition of the falls	S
Are blended in one grand euphonious chord	I
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Far in the hazy distance as the eye	J
With vague perceptive vision penetrates	S
Lie the vast mesas of ethereal hue	P
Stretched in a calm and sleepy quietude	I
Dreamy repose and blue tranquillity	I
The eye which rests upon the drowsy scene	P
Beholds a dim horizon which presents	S
No line of demarcation or of bounds	S
A merging union blurred and indistinct	I
Fuliginous confusion that the eye	J
In viewing gazes but no more discerns	S
Which is the earth and which the azure sky	J
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But mark the change	K2
A cloud which floated in the atmosphere	L2
An inconsiderable and feathery speck	M2
Of no proportions now augmented wears	S
A threatening aspect ominously dark	N2
Enveloping the heaven's canopy	P
In lowering shadow and portentous gloom	E2
In pall of ambient obscurity	P
The fork ed lightnings ramify and play	Z
Upon a background of sepulchral black	O2
The growling thunders rumble a reply	J
Of detonation awful and profound	I
To every corruscation's vivid gleam	E2
In deep crescendo and fortissimo	E2
In quavering tremolo and stately fugue	P2
Echoes reverberates and dies away	Z
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But soon the sun with smiling radiance	S
Through orifice through rift and aperture	A2
Invades the storm and dissipates the clouds	S
Which scatter cowering and ephemeral	Z
Hugging the cliffs and o'er the dire abyss	S
Hover in fleecy ever changing form	E2
And in a transient season disappear	L2
Vanish as man must vanish and are gone	P
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The moist precipitation of the storm	E2
Revives refreshes and invigorates	S
The various vegetation and bedews	S
Each blade of grass and floweret with a tear	H
As nature weeping o'er the faults of man	P
The day recedes and twilight's neutral shade	I
Succeeds in turn and ushers in the night	I
Whose wings outstretched and shadowy descend	I
And in nocturnal mantle robes the scene	P
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A hush prevails Oppressive and profound	I
A silence broken only by the breeze	S
A dormant quiet essence and repose	S
Pervading calm and sweet oblivion	P
As nature wrapt in soft refreshing sleep	Q2
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Far in the east a solitary star	R2
Peeps through the sombre curtain of the night	I
In hesitating dubitation burns	S
In lonely splendor flashes for a time	E2
Till scattering celestial lights appear	L2
The vanguard of an astral multitude	I
Of constellations jewelled and serene	P
Which fill the lofty dome of space until	Z
The heavens sparkle with the myriad	I
Of spectra nebulae and satellite	I
With stellar scintillation and the orbs	S
Of less refulgence which reflective shine	P
With falling star and trailing meteor	A2
In one grand culmination glittering	S2
To their Creator's glory	P
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A burst of mellow lunar radiance	S
Inundates and illuminates the scene	P
The waxing moon in her meridian full	Z
Her beam vicarious disseminates	S
And shining hides with her superior light	I
The twinkling beauty of the firmament	I
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At the stupendous and inspiring sight	I
Of cosmic grandeur of the universe	S
A sense of vague and overwhelming awe	T2
Of inconceivable immensity	I
The being's inmost recess permeates	S
And man the atom in comparison	P
In spellbound admiration mutely stands	S
With speculative meditation dwells	S
On that most solemn of impressive thoughts	S
The goodness of the Deity to man	P