The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-08-06
Mount shasta
DALLAS, Texa
BY YELLOW BIRD.

Behold the dread Mount shasta where IL stands
Imperial midst the lesser heights, and, like
Some mighty unimpassioned mind, companion
And cold. The storms of heaven may beat in
wrath
Against IT, butt stands in unpolluted
Grandeur still and from the rolling mists up.
Its tower of pride cen puer than before.
The Wintry showers and white-winged tempesta
Their frozen tributes on its brow, and it
Doth make of them an everlasting crown.
Thus doth IL. day by day and age by age,
Defy each strata Of time still rising higher
Into heaveni
Aspiring to the eagles cloudless height,
No human foot has stained its snowy side;
No human breath has dimIned the icy mirroa
which
1t holds unto the moon and stars aud soy reign
sun,
We may not grow familiar with the secretc
or its hoary ops, whereon the Genius
OF the mountain builds his glorious thrC,e;
Far lifted in the b0unGIess blue, he dotn
Encircle with his gaze supreme the broad
Dominions OF the West, which lie beneath
His feet. in pictures of sublime repose
No artist ever draw. He secs the tall
Gigantic hills arise in silentness
Aud peace, and in the long review of distancs
Range themselves in order grand. He sees the
Play upon the golden streams which through
the valleys
Glide. He hears the music of the great and sol
emn sea,
And overlooks the huge old western wall
To view the birthplace Of undying Melody
Itself all light, save when some loftiest clou6
Doth for while embrace its cold, forbdding
form, that monarch mountain casts its mighty
Shadow down upon the crownless peaks below,
That, like inferior minds 10 some great
Spirit, stand in strong contrasted littleness!
All through the long and summary months OF
Most tranquil year, IL points its icy shaft
ON high, TO catch the dazzling beams that fall
In showers of splendor round that crystal ccnS
And roll In floods OF far magnihcence
Away from that lone vast reflector in
The dome of heaven.
Still watchful OF the fertile
Vale and undulatiny plains below. the grass
Grows greener In its shade. and sweeteT bloom
The flowers. Strong purifier From its snowy
eide the breeZes cool are waited TO the peaceful
Homes O. men," who shelter at fts feet and love
To gaze upon lite hOnOred form. Ave, standing
There the guarantee of health and happiness,
Well might II win communities bles sed
TO loftier feelings and 10 nobler thoughts
The great material symbol of eternal
Things And well l ween, in after years, how
In the middle Of his furrowed track tho Ilow-
man
In some sultry hour will pause and, wiping
Gaze upon that hoary peak. The herdsmas
Oft will rein his charger in the plain. and
drink
Iato hi inmost soul the calm sublimity;
And little children, playing on the green, shah
Cease their sport, aid turning 70 that noun
tain
Old, shall Of their mother ask, who made itg'
And she shall answer God! =
And we'll the Golden State shall thrive if. like
It's own Mount shasta sovereign law shall lift
Itself IN pure atmosphere-so high
That human feeling. human passion. at its base
Shall lie sUbdued cen PHYS tears shall on
Its summit freeze TO warm IL cen the SUI.
light
OF deep sympathy shall fail
It's pure administration shall be like
The snow immaculate upon that mountains
brow!