The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-10-14
FALLS.
W.. Z. Dor,

We stand
In human silence, amid Natures sounds.
Where the white waters ofthe ShoshOne
Glide on -uard to the rug ged, rocky ledge
From whence they downward leap. Above our
heads
The hummer sun is shining in the blue,
Sending Its radiance across the flood
OF waters moving with ~resistless force.
Around US. Nature robed in emerald
Gives welcome to her human Eo.arles
And bids them look and wonder. Round about
throws
Her g'amor over eye and ear and lip.
We gaze-we lsten-blt we speak 10 wore!
The odic fore 8 Of the ancient days
Have lett behind q story, old as Time,
AS stern as Fate, as positive as Death.
And here we read it, as they did perchauce.
Whose dusky cheeks, in cons long since fled.
Grew darker, as their feastiDg eyes
Saw the Great Spirit in the rising mist
That always evermor throrg l light CT day
And dark of night, shrouded his mystic form.
On yonder rock
An eagle stands-halfp poised, as il TO wing
Its flight across the chasm of mist. Beyond,
POlnt Lookout its fair frontsse lifts and bids
The traveller linger, where, to awe-st uck eyes
CVuNctSluE CuoulclS MAuSlC AuSO OuS
70 lose themselves In a mad, white-winge1 leap
Tot the abyss below. On Pulpit rock
Our fancy linus a vision, wie1d aid wild
OF Clerones, Teacher, asking human minds
To measure what is measureless; to trace
The finite back to where the Infinite
In wrept effulgence. babe the work begin,
Whose end shall be when Time shall be 10 moe
On Lovers Leap We look and couture up
Tn tragic scene where man and maiden reached
The fe .ds Of Paradise through Sheols gates
Of wild, ~inturiate waters.
Climbing down
(To where the waters, having gained repose,
Glide on with quiet grace TO seek afar
By river, lake and gulf the oceans breastj
There grows up in our hearts q solemn awe,
AS We look upward, where, mid roar and ri b,
The waves o'erleap the ledge and disappear
In foam and mist to depths unkno~n
To human eyes. How petty now appear
Our hopes-Our aspirations, our desires
Our
In such an houl as this. at Natures feet
O'erwlelmed with wonder aud made dumb
through awe.
Here is a tragedy Il Time, when Fine
Was young. Titanic forces met to wage
An elemental warfare such Is man
Can scarce conceive. when nature rem: her
robes
In anguish and her gaping wound, she strovs
To hide in Wilderness of 8 ,liiude.
Oh. Sboshone!
Niagara's cataract, sublime aud grand.
Is tame beside thes, who art still unnamed!
L.eonial in thy grandeur, still rem in
IS ruggei as the rocks thy waters kiss.
Mans puny hand drops helpless at the task,
Ma IS finite mind is shrivel]ed at the thought.
Nam narrow purpose on the ins snt fills,
EnvelOped in the mists that rise from thee.
Oh, mighty. mystic shoshone! BELOVED,
A miracle: Against the samtte sheet
OF foam, a rainbow spans the magic scene;
From cliff to cliff It's irridescent ave
CLOVIS in the ozone. glitters in tbs spray,
And unites its promise-od as Noah's day
In rsdisnt color, on an ebon scroll
Love triumphs o:er Doubt-Hop over Fear
The In Unite is thee All Gracious one;
10. on our knees W fall and, 81 uping hands,,
We cry: o Thu, our Fltrer, through Thy
works
We worship Tnee.
July II: 1885.