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and sowing broadcast like a farmer and gardener, 

 doing rough work and fine work, planting se- 

 quoias and pines, rosebushes and daisies ; work- 

 ing in gems, filling every crack and hollow with 

 them ; distilling fine essences ; painting plants 

 and shells, clouds, mountains, all the earth and 

 heavens, like an artist, — ever working toward 

 beauty higher and higher. Where may the 

 mind find more stimulating, quickening pastur- 

 age? A thousand Yellowstone wonders are call- 

 ing, " Look up and down and round about you ! " 

 And a multitude of still, small voices may be 

 heard directing you to look through all this 

 transient, shifting show of things called " sub- 

 stantial " into the truly substantial, spiritual world 

 whose forms flesh and wood, rock and water, air 

 and sunshine, only veil and conceal, and to learn 

 that here is heaven and the dwelling-place of the 

 angels. 



The sun is setting ; long, violet shadows are 

 growing out over the woods from the mountains 

 along the western rim of the park ; the Absaroka 

 range is baptized in the divine light of the alpen- 

 glow, and its rocks and trees are transfigured. 

 Next to the fight of the dawn on high mountain 

 tops, the alpenglow is the most impressive of all 

 the terrestrial manifestations of God. 



Now comes the gloaming. The alpenglow is 

 fading into earthy, murky gloom, but do not let 

 your town habits draw you away to the hotel. 



