And It Is Upon These Flood-Beds Of Moraine Soil,
Thus Suddenly And Simultaneously Laid Down And Joined Edge To Edge,
That The Flowery Chaparral Is Growing.
Thus, by forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive, Nature
accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a
Flood
of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an
outburst of organic life - forest and garden, with all their wealth of
fruit and flowers, the air stirred into one universal hum with
rejoicing insects, a milky way of wings and petals, girdling the
newborn mountain like a cloud, as if the vivifying sunbeams beating
against its sides had broken into a foam of plant-bloom and bees.
But with such grand displays as Nature is making here, how grand are
her reservations, bestowed only upon those who devotedly seek them!
Beneath the smooth and snowy surface the fountain fires are still
aglow, to blaze forth afresh at their appointed times. The glaciers,
looking so still and small at a distance, represented by the artist
with a patch of white paint laid on by a single stroke of his brush,
are still flowing onward, unhalting, with deep crystal currents,
sculpturing the mountain with stern, resistless energy. How many
caves and fountains that no eye has yet seen lie with all their fine
furniture deep down in the darkness, and how many shy wild creatures
are at home beneath the grateful lights and shadows of the woods,
rejoicing in their fullness of perfect life!
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