The mountains stand up around the main street in Harpers Ferry.
Shadows stand around the town, and the mist creeps up the flanks of tall rocks.
A terrible push of water sometime made a cloven way for their flood here. And yet-up at Hilltop House or up at Jefferson's Rock, there are lookouts. There are long curves of the meeting of the Potomac and the Shenandoah. There is the running water home of living fish and silver of the sun. The lazy flat rocks spread out browns for green and blue silver to run over.