SWAYING TREE TOPS 



the mountain at all. They clamber 

 up the rocky steps, they stand five 

 minutes on the point, they read an 

 inscription or two about the battle- 

 field, then they consult their time- 

 pieces and rush to the car that takes 

 them to their train. Later in some 

 other part of the country they will 

 tell how they " saw " the mountain, 

 while in reality they have not seen it. 

 They do not see who thus " do " 

 things. 



If it be twenty times that I have 

 tramped the mountain side and sum- 

 mit, it is twenty fold that I have 

 seen of sky, and shadow, and valley, 

 and distant blue ridge of hills. I sit 

 on sunset rock and look at the tree- 

 covered slope which falls rapidly 

 a thousand and a half of feet and 



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