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that the boys loved so dearly to "declaim;" and another poem by this last author, which we all liked to read, partly from a childish love of the tragic, and partly for its graphic description of an avalanche's movement: "Slowly it came in its mountain wrath, And the forests vanished before its path; And the rude cliffs bowed; and the waters fled, And the valley of life was the tomb of the dead."
Jeff Graham, who had not spoken, struck a match, and holding it above his head, peered around the interior of the tent, which he observed had sagged a good deal from the impact of the avalanche's breath, though the stakes held their places in the snow. He saw Frank Mansley standing pale with affright, while Roswell, sitting on the edge of his couch, was equally startled.
The stars, like saints in glory, meet. While, hid in solitude sublime, Methinks I muse on Nature's tomb, And hear the passing foot of Time Step through the silent gloom. "All in a moment, crash on crash, From precipice to precipice, An avalanche's ruins dash Down to the nethermost abyss, Invisible; the ear alone Pursues the uproar till it dies; Echo to Echo, groan for groan,
TELL. The road you take lies through the river's gorge, And many a cross proclaims where travellers Have perished 'neath the avalanche's fall. DUKE JOHN. I have no fear for nature's terrors, so I can appease the torments of my soul.
As the spring-tides, with heavy plash, From the cliffs invading, dash Huge fragments, sapped by the ceaseless flow, Till white and thundering down they go, Like the avalanche's snow, On the Alpine vales below; Thus at length, outbreathed and worn, Corinth's sons were downward borne By the long and oft renewed Charge of the Moslem multitude.
In the clear light a sheen glittered over those portions of the ledge where its surface had been freshly abraded by the mass of rock grinding over it in the avalanche's descent; it was indubitably quartz, quartz in place, the only body of it found in situ so far on that mountain. His rich float had been of quartz gangue!
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