Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1889-10-24
JOAQUIN Ml5Laa Ar TACOMA

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JOAQUIN Ml1Lla az TACOMA.
Sit in fancy at l.qst, with me here on
the high hill, WIKI the roar Of the ham
mers and the clatter of trowels at our
back, Lct a. tara cur faces toward the
cast. Uader the steep stone wall at our
feet, hugsios tho precifice, which is
hung with wild vines and countless wild
ilUvers, steals the continuous car. These
alreama Of ears pass so close under the
precipice that you DO not see them. You
ljok straight down iuto the deep blue
waters that tide in from tho Japan aeas,
a common shot across, aud Ike preci-
piec, with the ever crowaine density OF
green. Then little to the right the
procipioe melts down, and the green fir
trees touch the silver sands. Then the
sands sweep in crescent about the heads
OF The Soand then sea. marsh then the
trees, dense, deep, tall and imperious,
Tor ten, twenty, thirty, forty ailts Upl
up! uq
You start to your teet-you stand
with your head uncovered fer above
all this density of wood and out Of and
above Nil this blackuess there gIeam aud
fash face to face tho everlasting snows
Of Mount Tacoma.
| Be silent, as | should be silent. It is
an iasolont thing that should dare te
dwell even single paragraph in the idle
attempt TO describe the lodescr,bab's
Out of the bactne8s aud above tht
smoke, above the touch of pollution
above the clouds, compapioned foreve
with the stars, Tacoma stands imperiou
and alone.
You may see pretty woman pass b.
as you 81, here on tho high built balloon
! Of the new red city on the strong righ
. arm Of the sea Of scas but somehow sh
. becomes part Of Tacoma, melts into tn
4 the mountain Of snow, and your face
again heavenward. You may hear
q wise man speak OF tho aetions Of grea
q uen as YOU sit here; but solaehcw b
i utterance seems far, far away you
!. heart aads your whole soul, they has
. gone up into the mountains to pra.
), And it is well. You will come into Il
IS world ,ruer and better man. You vi
n descend hut. never entirely descen'
4 Your soul will in some sort remain big
n and white and glorious. You can new
again come quite down to the touch
r. that which is unworthy, for ycu ha'
h been companioned with the Eternal.
N The mountains Of Mexico, and Ca
is fornia as well, are mountains on top
\. mountains. Rather. l should say, th
to the snow peaks are set on the top
!, mouataia ranges. Not so here 10 d
as Northwest Of our Republic, Mou
as Hold, or rather Mount Pot.wa, the tr
t. Indian name of Mount Hood, start
G from the waters edge OF the Greg
he River, and springs almost perpendlcul
a in the air to its full height. 1t looks
to if it might blow over, 20 steep and 81
ad and alone and unsupported does j. star
,or The same might almost be said OF Mou
ed Saint Heens, aud most especially
off Mount Ta0ma.
bis AS may have said ia this paper OF
in former occasion, tho higher peak
OIL Mexico aud California are merely
ms heads Of we'll raised families. But !
ted so With these sublime snow peaks Of
he North. They stand entirely alone. ]
fall foundation stones Of Mount Tacoma
60 laid almost ID the sea. And SO you y
aio write it down that tho mountain seen
ans Of Oregon or Washington surpasses I
md Of either Mexico or California as far
$, majesty and Impressions are concord
Come, then. and see the new wo'
o. and look MP and wonder what Tear
the COMMISSIONS fashioned it. Sit with us
AN. the wilderness, and get the balm and
thsl.,n or the numberless 6f trees