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is the autumn dress of the LyalTs Larches; lor when the l)ricf 

 alpine summer is past the leaves of these beautiful trees, 

 which grow in clusters out of woody cups, and in JnK .u.- r, 

 tender pale green, turn gnldcn-hued before the)- tall. 



The cones are small and daint)- and soon tlro|) oft. it is 

 very pleasant to i)ause awhile amongst a grove of these 

 exquisite feathery apple-green Larches, and recall the words 

 of one who said : 



"Behind me lay the forests hushed w ith sleej) : 



Above me in its <;ranite majestx', 

 Sphinx-like, the peak thro' silent centuries 



Met the eternal question of the skv. 

 \'ictor at last — throned on the cra^jged hei^^dit — 



I scan the green steeps of the mountain side 



Where late I toiled. The forest lands stretch wide. 

 And in deep valleys farms gleam far and white, 

 Vistas of distance break upon my si^^ht. 



The peopled plain creeps to tiie sky's blue rim. 



Where new peaks gather substanceless and dim. 

 As half-remembered dreams at noontime light. 



"Between two silences my soul tloats still 



As any white cloud in this sunny air. 



No sound of living breaks upon my ear. 

 No strain of thought — no restless human will — 



Only the virgin (luiet, every wiiere — 



Earth never seemed so far. or Heaven so near. 

 In the awed silence of this dim hitjh place 



One keepinj^ vii]^il miijht not fear, indeed, 



If it befell him as that man of old. 

 Who in the mountain met Cod face to lace." 



COTTON-GRASS 



EriopJionnn iiifiitiituiii. .Sed;;e 1- .imily 



Perennial l)y rootstocks. Stems: culm obtusely irianijul.i;. ^;.... 

 smooth, slender. Leaves: liliform. channelled: sjjikclet terminal, solilar)'. 

 erect ; involucre none : scales si)irally imbricated, ovate lanceolaie. 

 long-acuminate, purplish-brown, membranous : bristles numerous, white 



or slitrhtlv vellowish. weak. 



