Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-12

summit OF the Wengern. Then people
/ usually go on down over the other side to
| Lauterbrunnen, but instead we went on
by foot up o higher peak called the
| Lauberhorn, an hour and half further.
You get the one unsurpassed view of the
Jungfrau from the Wengern, ana beside
it the Monk and the RiEer. The great
white heads slowly dnwned upon us as
We came up the hill, leaving lovely
Griudelwald, guarded by its solid sentry,
the Wetterhorn, far, far benenths US
1t is awful rs well as beautiful, this
near sight of great mountain. All
its black precipiCes, its yawniug chasms,
its immensities OF height, are revealed.
And yet the thought of man is so much
greater Than his stature he can stand
before such hugeness unabashed aud
take in the mighty attitudes so COM
p!etely that he cannot realizS
THE COMPARATIVE LITTLENEsS
of his own apparent form. Such sights
annihilate the small measure OF our ideas
of size and distance, and we seem 10 live
and belong il larger, grander world.
So natural seems the sense OF longer
sight and wider outlook that, coming
down into our ordinary field OF vision
again, we feel cramped, as il we had
l.
We LOOK buck at those gIorilied moments
spent i'll such scenes as il they had Usen
.pent in another sphere, not only of
grauder feature, but with larger range
of power ana possibi lity.
Piles of soft clouds were rolling and
drifting around, above and below the
mountains as We sat on the ridge of the
LauOerhoru. 1t had been fancy of
mine that snow mountain WIS like
white cloud, but it is not true i'll the
least. When the whitest of feathery
summer clouds is piled up against u snow
peak 1t seems smoky and dark beside the
steady, solid, shining white of the snow.
But they are no rivals, the summer
cloud AMI mountain peak! They are
royal friends, and the light cloud
PLAYS WITH A TENDER GRACE
around the stern sublimily of the
changeless snow. Sitting there on the
ridge OF the Lauberhorn, hear q preri-
pice that dropped dowu-we did not look
to see how far. but 5000 or 1000 feet-the
white peaks circIed close around US be-
hind, while in front we looked down
through q mysterious blue light Ut
seemed more like light than haze) into
the deep rift of the LanterUruuner val
ley, with its many gauzy waterfalls,
steaming down the cliffs like scarfs of
tuile-on to Murreu the brightest village
in the Oberluud-th en- far over lonely
green land and dell and noun tain peak
TO Il bank of big headed clouds on the
honiZon. There Is no train of tourists up
the Lauberhorn; we sut there III that
place OF glory all alone, utterly shut out
from thought or sight of humanity. !
From far below came the tInklIug of |
cow5ells; occasionally the thunder of an |
unseen avalanche above. The clouds |
were constantly shifting; now disclosing |
some Lofty, white summit as if detached |
from earth aud floating away in wreath |
Of cloud; now pouring up from the val
ley and enveloping US IN Il thick mist;
then gradually the scene would dawn on
us again from out the mist, seeming
more suberb than before. We cannot {
know at the time what such scenes are to
Us. 1t is afterward that we realize that
N few moments OF
sELF-FoEGETTUL ABSORPTION
If such grandeur-our thought has
grown larger and broader, never to be
quite contracted again into its former
channels.
Way up there on that little point of
and, ten thousand feet above the sea,
rameu IN Oy rough cragS and looked
Town upon only by white peaks and blue
ky, we found bed of wild pansies and
orget- and other brilliant little
lowers unfamiliar to us. The forget
ne-nots grew in large punches with very
hort stem, and were of the same lntnnse
'lue as the sky above; the pansies were
purple, with an exquisite perfume. The
weet surprise with which we saw these
snrrnnn1al % |
uch hard and rough magniicence, was
omethlng not to be forgotten. ...-
JESSIE &. CnASiBEaLIS.