The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-10
MOUNT SHASTA.
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IIn northern California near the Oregon
boundary line, somu three hundred miles
north OF the city OF Sacramento. stanua
Mount shssla; 30 called from the Russian
word Tchnsii, or chas'e, astuperdonH mon.
ument Of nature 10 900 ieet uboye tue level
NJ tue sea. IL II PERHAPS the higl.sl psak
In the United Sales. Its hoafy summit 10
covered by the SHOWS OF q thousand VIM
ieTs. For Neara the writer lNcd amos
within it, shadow, aud has often rode Hion.
ls btse and Eaz 81. u ,olemn awe upon is
snow-elad heights,
rhe iolluwi & sublime poem Wa Written
nearly thiTty yeaTs agu by John RiNgr, an
accom- Pushed Ch,rnke. Indian, . sfoie
under the soubr quet OF yellow BIRD. Ito
wa known to all old CalliOrn'ans a. u man
OF genius, a ripe tcho.nr, and onr,o' natures
grandest poets. HIS father, u man ol CUT
u y ana 2, refinement, was Cniei of tne Chrro'
kee Nation, aud was siain SOM. ioriy -hse
years ago, by tne ndhefents oi X M, - riNsl
chieituD, who continued TO tul. tbs Chero,
KEGS until his death, which think oecufrd
| ,beut the close OF the civil war. Hon
George w. Puchal, now OF this STATE, mar
rled n sister OF our poet,-dEoh"k r. AZ
ronp.l
Behold the dread Mount Shasta, WHORE Il stands
1 Imperial mid / tho csser heirht.i and. lise
some mlgn'y, unlmpassioned mind oompan'
AID cold The storms Of heaven may b'a, in
As,ins, H. aud from L c rolling mlsls uphoavss
II ioN 7 of prids cen pur,r ban o zoe,
Inc wintry showers ana whi'e'"iug'a "mpes''
Their ir zen tributes or its brow, aud Il
Doth D. nko of them IA tyeflafiitf a. wn'
Thus doln IL day BY day ann ace ~ nge,
Defy aChG 'oke Of time, still Tisiur hlEhet
A,pir,ns To IN e.g os oloudloss htighs
y human { cot has stained ~ snowy sue 49,
4. NaHNau NFN.NI has nNmlmFu ING AIN MIRROR
4 holds aato the nom, ard stars, sntsoysreign
W. NV not Yr.w hml'iar wih The secrets
| OF Il. iohiy top. wherein the Genius
or tha m uutain buiilt 10 glpil us l.tlho
Far.hf cd 10 ihc. bound e. 0lne' nc ON
I'm lrrle. vi h his tnEo supreme Tue Ntoau
ID minilns of hewesI; " len Nc hi''cet
9TH AZ ia pie urcs OF ..u'lime fetoso
No artist eve ar " liz secs IA tall
al. antir hills Hiise IN ~, NJ
Aud pea.e, a. d IN tac lOug rcvi %, dle'auev,
r lpge In mssyes ia ofdtr grad lie sees the
Play gpo the golden streams which through
Glide. lie hears the music OF the great and sol.
emu sea
TnTi " lac bInh.p acs OF uudying Melody.
'self all Hight save whom some tiutst ol.un
DOH fora Will outrice it, cold. ioroilding
FORM, that monarch mouht.lh ca maSny
shadow down upoi h %crownle's peaks oelo"'
That. ike inf rio" uds g come gre,
Sri T., stand IN : roDg coutrasl,d Ut len,ss.
| Al through the ioug ut4 rutnm ~ nou' ~ oio"t
Most tratquil year, IL pnin y It's Icy shai
% hisb. IL caicn he dszzilug b,s y that falI
Ina sh lwprs Of s lendor nun = ~ crystal cone,
Avn roll a. nn0d Ot isr ma %uilc"nob
Away from that Ion vast reneciortu
The III g u Heaven
sui satchmi OF ih' fsrule
Vale. aud uudu'ntinS plains below the gtass
DR. ~ pte,n. a.. is sh do. aud rwsetcr b Dom
| The flowers. sIong uTileil fWn It. snowy
| side the hreoz o. col r. waited u tho eacr,il
M mes OF m II. wro shelter at us f,thn love
| II, p.za upnn t.. honond 70 N aye starh tg
rnere h guhtavtre of health ana happiness
weilmighiii wtr communit,s So b ct
| To loi ir ( Z iugs a, q q" 10 or IA ghth-
Tho neat mat. rial symbol Of 81 rnat
| hings. And well | we n. la siter years now
la the mildleot his urruWcit tckihu y o"mhu
n som suiir, hour vii pa'se, an wipiug
From ms pow the dusty " / with T Vtfthpe
4. unon tlat h iary rcaS Toe. nefnstnal,
| or will teign III, ch ger on he paw, hhu"I'"A
Loo his INN tsiult q calm sunhm ",
nd i { @ chill rcn. p'nytsg on the green hhall
Cts.e tn a. sport aun turiing - th7l mo ~ ~,
Old shal o Their mothers nsk; VINO IN usA'
4 she shal hnsw ,, Guol'
And we this go utn state shnl thrive, nse
Us own Mount Slast', 9oyrcig law, thth NV
Ito IN pu e atmos phcIe 20 Nah
That human feel M, huinAn passion, nti. oass
S ali lie sub iu.d I'm No. tears snail on
IL, summit ire,ze TO waim IL even tue iuhisnt
o. U.ep ,ymputh shRl IA
la pure ndmiuistta lou shall be Ike
The snow immaculate o. that MOUNTAINS pfo".