The book of earth

by Alfred Noyes

Vermilion Cliffs, like sunset clouds congealed

To solid crags; the Valley of Surprise

Where blind walls open, into a Titan pass;

Labyrinth Canyon, and the Valley of Echoes;

Cataract Canyon, rolling boulders down

In floods of emerald thunder; Gunnison’s Valley

Crossed, once, by the forgotten Spanish Trail;

Then, for a hundred miles, Desolation Canyon,

Savagely pinnacled, strange as the lost road

Of Death, cleaving a long deserted world;