“The guide said a true word,” said the poet. “God sent us into the world that we might have an experience.”


With that our tramping ended. We left our pine-staffs leaning against a Cardston wall. We slept in beds again and bought our coffee at a shop. Gathering prose invaded the clear blue of our poetry. Some sadness, like a shadow, settled on us. And it was good-b’ye to the mountains.

Thy Kingdom come, O Lord,

As once it came,

May it come again!

For once it came upon the mountains,

It came upon the wings of the morning

Amid the flowers and adown the streams.