premature mining explosion which banished the light of the Colorado sun from his eyes forever, adding the almost insurmountable barrier of total and hopeless blindness to those of limited means and insufficient education. At first further effort seemed useless, but as time meliorates in some degree even the most deplorable and distressing physical conditions, ambition slowly rallied, and while lying for several months a patient in various hospitals in an ineffectual attempt to regain even partial sight, the following ideas and efforts of past years were gradually recalled from the recesses of memory, and reduced to their present form, in which, with no small hesitation and misgiving, they are presented to the consideration of the reading public, which in the humble opinion of the author has frequently failed to receive and appreciate productions of vastly superior merit.

Ouray, Colorado, March 15, 1901.

 

"I stood at sunrise on the topmost part, Of lofty mountain, massively sublime." MOUNT WILSON, SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO.

Of lofty mountain, massively sublime."

Mountain Idylls and Other Poems 

Grandeur. 

Dedicated to the mountains of the San Juan district, Colorado, as seen from the summit of Mt. Wilson.

I stood at sunrise, on the topmost part

Of lofty mountain, massively sublime;

A pinnacle of trachyte, seamed and scarred

By countless generations' ceaseless war

And struggle with the restless elements;

A rugged point, which shot into the air,

As by ambition or desire impelled

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