The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-05-13
SUNRISE in the OzarIks.

SUNRISE in the Ozarks.
tDsdicated to Dr.. wilbur r. sherldsnJ
By Claude simpson Handy. Ph. B.
We took leave of Rolla near fiv,
O'Clock. l was invited into the sleep
, er but declined. ! had already de
! termined to fill my soul with the
charms Of an Ozark day inaugural
sat on the south side of the train fol
were hurrying into the northeast,
Dappled star light had retreated be.
!, fore the sifted winnowed grey oil
early morn. The heavens lay a
placid meadow. Toward the east
rose hedge Of heavy blue. To reach
this rustic barrier, ones vision en-
countered a narrow field Of new
mown swaths, ripe as the crown of
aged dandelions, reminding me of
the stately timothy, as I've seen it
lie down in dignity before my fathers
mower. ~
An acre of orchard bloom compell-
ed a fleeing glance of admiration,
and when again lifted up mine eyes
unto the hills, wished for painters
art and palette. Beyond a horizon
streamlet of grey diluted blue, were
airy fleecy forms, a flock of. shadow
sheep in pastures rich, while south,
ward, just little, the meadow of the
morning bloomed with tints of orange
corn gold and princely purple.
In boyhood heaven was in far
distant zone. But when within the
clay we build cathedrals to the Christ,
the leagues are lessened between the
clod and cloud. Focused upon the
heavens, my eyes did not forget the
hills. The changing panorama dis
Closed school house on bluff, and
above it a winged wanderer hasting ,
west ward, a harbinger of the MORN
ng possibly; single fluttering bit Of :
contrast upon subdued but eloquent :
ky.
For fifteen minutes there came no =
hange, we hurried by a groupof cat :,
lie, breakfasting by sheet of water, y
which seemed as a bit of. morning y
ky, fallen within an earthly depres- y
ion. And then grove Of granite y
hats, a city of the dead, still driving
ITO the Ozarks and on into the East, :,
'e came upon a hillside hamlet. "
he villagers were already astir. The - =,
'mples of the dead, back yonder on =
lie bluff, here, half mile removed, -
fe with it's schools, it's markets and a.
S homes. How swiftly is the cara -
an, which travels to that pale realm 40
shade, recruited from among the % %
opulation of the village above the :. !.
fountain vale. Yea! AS quickly as ::
le tints of morning change or colors :. :.
de at eventide. u -.
A ragged knob with a coronet of "a
ks glided into the lost-to-view and
e eastern skies lay full before US ye
ice again. My morning meadow 40
enc had gone. A sky-ship with ~
sty beak was sailing southwark. pa
lie mottled Prov was like in color
the Russets in the old Ohio or
ard which one time set my teeth 20
edge. Twas such a ship and ~,
ch a beak, as the far famed Merri- al.
ac's type. And presently she
arged upon fleet of misty forms, in,
nich | knew to be fairy ships. Hans
tristan Anderson said so. ~
Some prim cedars above crag all G.
amed with yellow, obscured my
sion for moment, and then l saw n,
mantle of richest oriental purple
ape the east, and slowly, slowly
alchemist Of the upper radiance, ma
ed the purple robe with ruby, and \
n while i might have counted "a
y, the mantle of ruby became a \
liant rose. ,;.t
The trees were laughing now. the \
ks were restless with dancing ,;eh
1t. The path of planets was like a v
usand mirrors or lovely lake of pr;
cry transparency, rejecting Jew n
i shadows. At five fifteen we c;x
nded curve, marked with the n
ce and symmetry of a swallows Ora
ut, and through the cloven hills, n
ween curtains Of triumphant trees y
celestial clouds, a globe Of Che
geous gold appeared. It is no N
stery to me that antiquity wor- Civ,
med the sim. That snlar enharo