The Guardians of the Columbia / Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens - John H. Williams

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Guardians of the Columbia, by John H. (John Harvey) Williams

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THE MOUNTAIN

I hold above a careless land
The menace of the skies;
Within the hollow of my hand
The sleeping tempest lies.
Mine are the promise of the morn,
The triumph of the day;
And parting sunset's beams forlorn
Upon my heights delay.
—Edward Sydney Tylee