Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-03-18
DOnan's Color Words.
DEITY WROUGHT SPLENDORS OF
TIE NIGHT IN THE FAST
NESSES OF UTAH.

| NESSES OF UTAH.
Nowhere on all Gods earth are
the phenomena of air and sky and
light moro marvelously glorious and
beautiful than in this golden mountain
region Of the holy land and the
American dead sea. 1t is a region
OF magnificent sunrises and sunsets,
OF ralnbows and haloS, mirages, au.
reoles and auroras, where snow falls
and lightnings flash amid all the
glory Of radiant sunlight and moon
llght and starlight, where ebon thun-
der-clouds frown around one peak
while dazzle of radiance bathes the
lofty brow of its next neigbor. No
where is the nightly sky more deeply,
purely blue or luminous with larger
Jewel-like stars. 1t is realm of
meteoric wonders Of prismatic mira
cles. Lunar rainbows, scarcely seen
once in lifetime in other lands are
frequent occurrences here, but never
even here-neVer since the strange.
resplendent token of Jehovah's COW
enant with a dripping world first
cast its luminous coronet around the
heaven turned eye beheId richer,
rarer manifestation of the divine
handiwork than that which feasted
the gaze Of a few late vigil-keeping
citizens of Zion last Saturday night.
The display of celest stial decorative
taste and genius was transcendently
glorious and sublime. Omnipotence
itself, with all the dazzling prismatic
stores of the universe at its COM
mand, could have devised nothing
more enchantingly beautiful.
The sky Of this grand intermoun-
tain realm was as blue as ever bent
its sapphirean arch above the far
famed waters of the Golden Horn.
as blue and clear as the prude, trans
lucent crystal that domes the gold
paved, jewel-gated city of God,
mot made with hands, eternal in
the heavens" The moon, radiant
queen of love and romance, sailed
up the fieckless azure attended by a
royal retinue of gemlike stars. A
Hood of soft, delicious light fell, like
silver mantle, on ow-crowned
crag and mirrored lake, on stream
and woodland, roof and spire. The
city lay asleep, ard all nature
seemed bathed in sweet effulgence
and holy calm. Soon after mid
night wierd mass of fieecy cloud
swept slowly up from the horizon, a
floating island of supernal snow in
glowing sapphire sea. 1t drifted on
and up till, enveloping the moon,
she peeped out from behind it like
a fair girls face through a bridal
veil. A ring of light, colorless as
pearl, white as the ghost Of dead
sun gleam, surrounded her. Once
having caught her in its coils, it rap
idly expanded, and its outer edge
took pale lemon hue. This soon
deepened into yellow, and that to
orange. Then came circlet of
green, so tender, so delicate, that it
could only have been wrought by
mermaid's hands in ocean palaces
OF shadowy shells. The deeper en-
erald came next, followed by blue of
heavens own liquid dyes. An airy
scarf Of daintiest violet, and broad
border band of rose color blushing
into aerial crimson, completing the
ravishing concentric tiara, and over
it fitted a gauZy cloud Grape, vary
ing in tint from the ethereal pink of
peach bloomy beauty's cheeks to the
faint spirit of green that dwells in
an opal's heart-not in color, but a
mere gentle dream of color. Two
large golden stars twinkled in and
out amid the gorgeous deity woven
drapery Of film, as if enraptured
with the loveliness of which they
formed part.
And ever and anon q rift in the
great snowbank of cloud brought
out the queenly moon in full splen-
dor, and sent ten thousand glittering
rainbow fragments whirling about
the sky, only to unite again in ka-
leidoscopic rings without end, and
glories unsurpassed in a lifetime's
recollection of empyreal pyrotech-
MICS. For two full hours almighty
power and skill kept the curtains up
and the magnificent spectacle in
view. If the wrong side of heaven
Is so transportingly beautiful and
lovely, what must the right side be +?