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RECREATION 



in which to sleep. Though the same 

 sun is rising and setting upon a tumul- 

 tuous world, and the moon, which, 

 climbing these heights, looks down up- 

 on idyllic calm, is witnessing also the 

 melodrama of human life, the massive 

 granite walls so deaden sound and ac- 

 centuate the separation, that the world 

 seems whirling in another sphere, while 

 within their magic compass, mingled 



with the sound of falling waters, there 

 comes to the listening ear, in rhythmic 

 cadence, "Be still and know that I am 

 God." 



Although the exalted emotions that 

 it inspires may not continue when the 

 valley has become a memory, one does 

 not sink again to the old level, and is 

 always the better for having traveled 

 the Yosemite road. 





THE PATIENT BURRO 



