Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1904 — ESCAPED. [ARTICLE]

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i.if.ok b, marshAi.r,. ’ « Oh, mountain stream that churns her tresses white, And hroiders all her robes, with shadows dark and deep — Your mountain lovers are your chief delight, As from their strong embrace yon lightly leap To freedom in the waiting, verdant plain, Ne’er to return to mountain nooks again. And mountain lovers, frowning, grim, and gray, Whose crowns are circling curls of filmy, fleecy clouds, Blending in softest shades, where billowy snow banks lay All undetilod and pure; these waxen, winding shrouds. An old man's darling lias escaped aud gone Whose every hoe touch has made \< r<lauc\ >our own. And far away, o'erlooking lan 1 and stream, ■ Your brothers, silent specters, grandly stare!, And purple falls the light, and golden foot hills gleam Throtigh mists that rise eternal, by the breath of mountains fanned. And one long, changeful blend of purple, gold and gray Lifts up in silence to the very gates of Day. Rensselaer, Ind. Composed while riding on a train beside a beautiful mountain stream on the eastern slope of tlr: Sierra Nevada Mountains, and republished from the Christian Standard of April llj, 1004.