Slumbering 'neath their robes of white."

"As stormy cowls their summits hid."

"Exceeding the tremendous height

Of brother peaks, on left and right."

"Beseamed with countless scars and rents

From combat with the elements."

"He towered with mute and massive form

A challenge to the gathering storm."

"With swift and spoliating flow,

Uprooting many a noble tree,

To strew the desert's waste below,

With scattered drift-wood and debris."

"Arrayed in Nature's pristine dress

This was, indeed, a wilderness."

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"We grew as two twin pines might grow,

Upon some isolated edge,

Of some lone precipice or ledge."

"The noble spruce and stately fir

Stood draped in feathery garniture."

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