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rock-built vale, as you break through the pines and look
over against the sun: se...
s
flashe...
the gleaming snow...
Steens mountains, nearly one hundred miles beyond the
twin lakes, Malheur and Harney. Here, from these lofty
steeps, you look down upon the dreamful mirag...
al...
s
mystery, magic, majesty. The sparse, drooped trees seem
rootless and hang gleamin...
the heavens one hundred fee...
the air over against the everlasting snows. The glistening
lakes ris...
and hang, like the prophet's coffiin, mid heaven
and earth. They are silver, they are gold, they are amethyst,
saphire and rubies. They are all hues unite...
one. They are
the indescribable jasper wall...
the new Jerusalem.
