Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1889 — Beautiful Killarney. [ARTICLE]

Beautiful Killarney.

The spectator at Ivillarney will find wood, water and mountain in every conceivable form and aspect, so diversified and in such unlimited change, that it is impossible for the eye to rest from any point upon any spot where some combination of the three does not return a picture of beauty or grandeur. Entirely aside from historic or religious association of thought, and with every ruin, shrine or legend, so quickening to the imagination, expunged, for this simple physical fact alone, the Killarney region will ever remain the most beautiful spot in the world. Forest is here in trackless waste, where the red deer hide, in grove, in copse; in matted masses hanging from inaccessible heights. Shrubbery is here in such luxuriance that its richness and profusion cannot be elsewhere equaled outside the tropics. Water is here in such glints and gloamings as no pen or brush can adequately depict; in lakes that startle one as if in sudden awakening consciousness of surpassing dream; in torrents solemn and mighty; in cascades filmy as streams of lace; in rivers tortuous and wild, songful and murmurous; in pools deep, dark and silent. Mountains are liere with soft and billowy ascent; with crags and cliffs majestic, where eagles nest and scream; with peaks above the All these in all forms are Killarney’s so tenderly, so sweetly and so full of surpassing loveliness, one can no less than throb with the loftiest exaltation and exclaim: “Here stood the great Artificer, and lovingly builded and blessed. ” —Edgar L. Wakeman, in Worcester Spy.