My First Summer 



of purple flowers and purple stems, exceed- 

 ingly light and airy, seem to float above the 

 green plush of leaves like a thin misty cloud, 

 while the sod is brightened by several species 

 of gentian, potentilla, ivesia, orthogarpus, 



GLACIER MEADOW, ON THE HEADWATERS OF THE TUO- 

 LUMNE, 9500 FEET ABOVE THE SEA 



and their corresponding bees and butterflies. 

 All the glacier meadows are beautiful, but 

 few are so perfect as this one. Compared 

 with it the most carefully leveled, licked, 

 snipped artificial lawns of pleasure-grounds 

 are coarse things. I should like to live here 

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