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of ice Deceptively reserved and flat	A
it lies in grandeur and in mass	B
beneath a sea of shifting snow dunes	C
dots of cyclamen red and maroon on its clearly defined	D
pseudo podia	D
made of glass that will bend a much needed invention	E
comprising twenty eight ice fields from fifty to five hundred	D
feet thick	F
of unimagined delicacy	G
Picking periwinkles from the cracks	H
or killing prey with the concentric crushing rigor of the python	I
it hovers forward spider fashion	E
on its arms misleading like lace	J
its ghostly pallor changing	K
to the green metallic tinge of an anemone starred pool	L
The fir trees in the magnitude of their root systems	M
rise aloof from these maneuvers creepy to behold	D
austere specimens of our American royal families	N
each like the shadow of the one beside it	D
The rock seems frail compared with the dark energy of life	O
its vermilion and onyx and manganese blue interior expensiveness	N
left at the mercy of the weather	P
stained transversely by iron where the water drips down	Q
recognized by its plants and its animals	N
Completing a circle	R
you have been deceived into thinking that you have progressed	D
under the polite needles of the larches	N
hung to filter not to intercept the sunlight	D
met by tightly wattled spruce twigs	N
conformed to an edge like clipped cypress	N
as if no branch could penetrate the cold beyond its company	G
and dumps of gold and silver ore enclosing The Goat s Mirror	P
that lady fingerlike depression in the shape of the left human	E
foot	D
which prejudices you in favor of itself	S
before you have had time to see the others	N
its indigo pea green blue green and turquoise	N
from a hundred to two hundred feet deep	T
merging in irregular patches in the middle of the lake	U
where like gusts of a storm	V
obliterating the shadows of the fir trees the wind makes lanes	N
of ripples	N
What spot could have merits of equal importance	N
for bears elks deer wolves goats and ducks	N
Pre empted by their ancestors	N
this is the property of the exacting porcupine	W
and of the rat slipping along to its burrow in the swamp	X
or pausing on high ground to smell the heather	P
of thoughtful beavers	N
making drains which seem the work of careful men with shovels	N
and of the bears inspecting unexpectedly	G
ant hills and berry bushes	N
Composed of calcium gems and alabaster pillars	N
topaz tourmaline crystals and amethyst quartz	N
their den in somewhere else concealed in the confusion	E
of blue forests thrown together with marble and jasper and agate	D
as if the whole quarries had been dynamited	D
And farther up in a stag at bay position	E
as a scintillating fragment of these terrible stalagmites	N
stands the goat	D
its eye fixed on the waterfall which never seems to fall	Y
an endless skein swayed by the wind	D
immune to force of gravity in the perspective of the peaks	N
A special antelope	Z
acclimated to grottoes from which issue penetrating draughts	N
which make you wonder why you came	A2
it stands it ground	D
on cliffs the color of the clouds of petrified white vapor	P
black feet eyes nose and horns engraved on dazzling ice fields	N
the ermine body on the crystal peak	B2
the sun kindling its shoulders to maximum heat like acetylene	C2
dyeing them white	D
upon this antique pedestal	R
a mountain with those graceful lines which prove it a volcano	D2
its top a complete cone like Fujiyama s	N
till an explosion blew it off	E2
Distinguished by a beauty	D
of which the visitor dare never fully speak at home	F2
for fear of being stoned as an impostor	P
Big Snow Mountain is the home of a diversity of creatures	N
those who have lived in hotels	N
but who now live in camps who prefer to	D
the mountain guide evolving from the trapper	P
in two pairs of trousers the outer one older	P
wearing slowly away from the feet to the knees	N
the nine striped chipmunk	B2
running with unmammal like agility along a log	B2
the water ouzel	R
with its passion for rapids and high pressured falls	N
building under the arch of some tiny Niagara	G2
the white tailed ptarmigan in winter solid white	D
feeding on heather bells and alpine buckwheat	D
and the eleven eagles of the west	D
fond of the spring fragrance and the winter colors	N
used to the unegoistic action of the glaciers	N
and several hours of frost every midsummer night	D
They make a nice appearance don t they	H2
happy see nothing	B2
Perched on treacherous lava and pumice	N
those unadjusted chimney pots and cleavers	N
which stipulate names and addresses of persons to notify	I2
in case of disaster	P
they hear the roar of ice and supervise the water	P
winding slowly through the cliffs	N
the road climbing like the thread	D
which forms the groove around a snail shell	R
doubling back and forth until where snow begins it ends	N
No deliberate wide eyed wistfulness is here	J2
among the boulders sunk in ripples and white water	P
where when you hear the best wild music of the forest	D
it is sure to be a marmot	D
the victim on some slight observatory	D
of a struggle between curiosity and caution	E
inquiring what has scared it	D
a stone from the moraine descending in leaps	N
another marmot or the spotted ponies with glass eyes	N
brought up on frosty grass and flowers	N
and rapid draughts of ice water	P
Instructed none knows how to climb the mountain	E
by business men who require for recreation	E
three hundred and sixty five holidays in the year	K2
these conspicuously spotted little horses are peculiar	P
hard to discern among the birch trees ferns and lily pads	N
avalanche lilies Indian paint brushes	N
bear s ears and kittentails	N
and miniature cavalcades of chlorophylless fungi	I2
magnified in profile on the moss beds like moonstones in the water	P
the cavalcade of calico competing	B2
with the original American menagerie of styles	N
among the white flowers of the rhododendron surmounting	B2
rigid leaves	N
upon which moisture works its alchemy	D
transmuting verdure into onyx	N
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Like happy souls in Hell enjoying mental difficulties	N
the Greeks	N
amused themselves with delicate behavior	P
because it was so noble and fair	L2
not practised in adapting their intelligence	N
to eagle traps and snow shoes	N
to alpenstocks and other toys contrived by those	N
alive to the advantage of invigorating pleasures	N
Bows arrows oars and paddles for which trees provide the	G2
wood	D
in new countries more eloquent than elsewhere	L2
augmenting the assertion that essentially humane	M2
the forest affords wood for dwellings and by its beauty	D
stimulates the moral vigor of its citizens	N
The Greeks liked smoothness distrusting what was back	B2
of what could not be clearly seen	C2
resolving with benevolent conclusiveness	N
complexities which still will be complexities	N
as long as the world lasts	N
ascribing what we clumsily call happiness	N
to an accident or a quality	D
a spiritual substance or the soul itself	S
an act a disposition or a habit	D
or a habit infused to which the soul has been persuaded	D
or something distinct from a habit a power	P
such power as Adam had and we are still devoid of	N2
Emotionally sensitive their hearts were hard	D
their wisdom was remote	D
from that of these odd oracles of cool official sarcasm	O2
upon this game preserve	P2
where guns nets seines traps and explosives	N
hired vehicles gambling and intoxicants are prohibited	D
disobedient persons being summarily removed	D
and not allowed to return without permission in writing	B2
It is self evident	D
that it is frightful to have everything afraid of one	E
that one must do as one is told	D
and eat rice prunes dates raisins hardtack and tomatoes	N
this fossil flower concise without a shiver	P
intact when it is cut	D
damned for its sacrosanct remoteness	N
like Henry James damned by the public for decorum	O2
not decorum but restraint	D
it is the love of doing hard things	N
that rebuffed and wore them out a public out of sympathy	D
with neatness	N
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Neatness of finish Neatness of finish	Q2
Relentless accuracy is the nature of this octopus	N
with its capacity for fact	D
Creeping slowly as with meditated stealth	R2
its arms seeming to approach from all directions	N
it receives one under winds that tear the snow to bits	N
and hurl it like a sandblast	D
shearing off twigs and loose bark from the trees	N
Is tree the word for these things	N
flat on the ground like vines	N
some bent in a half circle with branches on one side	D
suggesting dust brushes not trees	N
some finding strength in union forming little stunted grooves	N
their flattened mats of branches shrunk in trying to escape	S2
from the hard mountain planned by ice and polished by the wind	D
the white volcano with no weather side	D
the lightning flashing at its base	N
rain falling in the valleys and snow falling on the peak	B2
the glassy octopus symmetrically pointed	D
its claw cut by the avalanche	T2
with a sound like the crack of a rifle	R
in a curtain of powdered snow launched like a waterfall	R