Krag, the Kootenay Ram 



GREAT broad web of 

 satin, shining white, and, 

 strewn across, long clumps 

 and trailing wreaths of li- 

 lac, almost white, wistaria 

 bloom, — pendent, shining, 

 and so delicately wrought 

 in palest silk that still the web was white ; and 

 in and out and trailed across, now lost, now 

 plain, two slender, twining, intertwining chains 

 of golden thread. 



I see a broken upland in the far Northwest. 

 Its gray and purple rocks are interpatched with 

 colors rich and warm, the new-born colors of 

 the upland spring, the greatest springtime in 

 the world ; for where there is no winter there 

 can be no spring. The gloom is measure of 



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