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( IGH above Sierra's peaks 

 stands grim Mount Tal- 

 lac. Ten thousand feet 

 above the sea it rears its 

 head to gaze out north 

 to that vast and wonderful turquoise 

 that men call Lake Tahoe, and north- 

 west, across a piney sea, to its great 

 white sister, Shasta of the Snows; 

 wonderful colors and things on every 

 side, mast-like pine trees strung with 

 jewelry, streams that a Buddhist would 

 have made sacred, hills that an Arab 



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