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Colorado geology, in which he compared the unfoldings of the several uplifts at our present point of vision to the opening leaves of the peony.

3. The description I have given of the first azure blossoming of the Rocky Mountains on the sky west of Beaver Creek, is no dreamier than must be a reader's idea of the mountains seen close at hand, after the most vivid description that can be written. In the East there is nothing to illustrate the Rocky Mountains by. With the Rocky Mountains, the Alleghanies and the Taconic have no common terms.

4. Here are none of those delicious, turfy glades, those enameled banks, which beautify the mountains of the Atlantic slope. The landscape is without a single patch of bright green. The mountains rise up in rugged, brawny masses, without the apology of color for a nakedness that is grand in itself.

5. They oppress you with such sublime size, they are the evident stone-mask of such a tremendous force spent in the old centuries, that you do not miss color in them, -do not think of it. Every cross-twist in them is the cast of a muscle strained by the gladiator, Fire.

6. The gentle curves, the valleys that lead out of sight into mountain recesses,-these are suggestions of a gentler world-time, which came after the struggle. They are the kisses of the Water Nymph, and the dalliance of bland but treacherous Oxygen. The Rocky Mountains are full of infinite suggestion. Their presence makes a thoughtful man wish to sit down and learn from them; there is such genius in it, it so over

awes one.

7. You are surprised when you examine this feeling, and see how few of the qualities which you admire in other mountains, exist in these. What you see is a

colossal mass of brown, and, in its highest lights, of amber, relieved against nothing, mediated by nothing, its wall your western horizon. It is so consistently

great, it is a congress of such equal giants, that you cannot compare it with any of the ranges you have seen before.

8. When you rise to a higher plane of vision, this single leaf of grandeur becomes a book. You confess that you have not seen the Rocky Mountains until now. Mountain billows westward after mountain, their crests climbing as they go; and far on, where you might suppose the Plains began again, break on a spotless strand of everlasting snow.

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW.

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2. Take her up tenderly,

Lift her with care;
Fashioned so slenderly,
Young, and so fair!

3. Look at her garments
Clinging like cerements;
Whilst the wave constantly
Drips from her clothing;
Take her up instantly,
Loving, not loathing.

4. Touch her not scornfully;
Think of her mournfully,
Gently and humanly;
Not of the stains of her:
All that remains of her
Now is pure womanly.

5. Make no deep scrutiny
Into her mutiny

Rash and undutiful:

Past all dishonor,

Death has left on her
Only the beautiful.

6. Still, for all slips of hers,
One of Eve's family—

Wipe those poor lips of hers
Oozing so clammily.

7. Loop up her tresses

Escaped from the comb

Her fair auburn tresses;
Whilst wonderment guesses
Where was her home?

8. Who was her father? Who was her mother? Håd she a sister?

Had she a brother?

Or was there a dearer one

Still, and a nearer one
Yet, than all other?

9. Alas for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!

O, it was pitiful
Near a whole city full
Home she had none.

10. Sisterly, brotherly,
Fatherly, motherly
Feelings had changed:
Love, by harsh evidence,
Thrown from his eminence;
Even God's providence
Seeming estranged.

11. Where the lamps quiver

So far in the river,

With many a light

From window and casement,

From garret to basement,
She stood with amazement,
Homeless by night.

12. The bleak wind of March

Made her tremble and shiver,

But not the dark arch,

Or the black-flowing river:

Mad from life's history,
Glad to death's mystery,
Swift to be hurled—
Anywhere, anywhere,
Out of the world!

13. In she plunged boldly,
No matter how coldly
The rough river ran,—
Over the brink of it,
Picture it-think of it,
Dissolute man!

Lave in it, drink of it,
Then, if you can!

14. Take her up tenderly,
Lift her with care;
Fashioned so slenderly,
Young, and so fair!
Ere her limbs frigidly
Stiffen too rigidly,

Decently, kindly,

Smooth and compose them;'

And her eyes, close them,
Staring so blindly!
Dreadfully staring

Through muddy impurity,
As when with the daring
Last look of despairing
Fixed on futurity.

15. Perishing gloomily,
Spurned by contumely,
Cold inhumanity,
Burning insanity,

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