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THE WEST SHORE.
lof tiLfM m no homo for any deity of those that men
create. Only the thought of eternal peace arose from
thi Lwen-opU-ariDg monument, like incense, and,
overflowing, filled the world with deep and holy calm.
Whoever the mountain turned its cheek toward the
an, many fir and smiling dimples appeared, and
along ft curve of snow, lines of shadow drew trac
ery, fair m the bluo veins on a child's temple, With
out the infinite sweetness and charm of this kindly
cLaDgi-fuIomi of form and color, there might have
Un opprenive awe in the presence of this transcen
dent glory against the solemn blue of noon. Grace
played over the surface of majesty, as a drift of rose
tares wavers in the air before a summer shower, or
m a wreath of rony miitt flits Ix'fore the grandeur of
a itorra. Loveliness was sprinkled, like a boon of
lUomA, upon sublimity.
M Our lives forever demand, and need, visual im
g that can be symbols to us of the grandeur of the
weetoe 0f repose. There are some faces that arise
dreamy in our memories, and look us into calmness
in our frantic moods. Fair and happy is a life that
ne! not call ux)o it vague memorial dreams for
uch attuning influence, but can turn to present real
ity, and aak tranquility at the shrine of a household
godde. Tho noblo works of nature, the mountain
mott of all,
lav jx.vicr to make
n,,r n,'7 wthi inoin.-ntji in the being
And, itodying tho light and tho majesty of Tacoma
there from it anj MtM(J in(o ,.
. M there etermore, I, th, ,iJ, of oan ml
Im-sU an, an .mag, f Mma beauty, hich I could
henceforth evole, hc0ever in the world I must
ltfo. 1W ,uch emotion, year, of nil.
gnmag, worthily ,,t , mortal can gain the
tl-U of mmorWity, i. D0l hi, earthly SL
lu.nd.;fiIeJ it .loop in the very ,nb,tan
r m there i, forever with ua, JJT?J
tire n.o.u uchjp o( y . , . "Dm Ior w
i. '! to he ligh, fc in ' fW ,,hpnCVfr
,he' utir!9moM(r
" give, then ncrv L I mCRnPas
;. tt. sUy ,au,h,, MJ , dWttJl8
from its own snows, gushing Beaward to buffet in the
boundless deep, might rejoice in a last look at their
parent ere they swept out of Puyallup bay. Other
large privilege of view it had. It could see what I
could not Tacoma the less, Mount Adams, meritori.
ous but clumsy; it could reflect sunbeams gracefully
across the breadth of forest to St Helens, the vestal
virgin, who still kept her flame kindled, and proved
her watchfulness ever and anon. Continuing its pan.
oramic studies, Tacoma could trace the chasm of the
Columbia by silver circles here and there; could see
every peak, chimney, or unopened vent, from Kul
shan to Shasta butte. The Blue mountains, east,
ward, were within its scope, and westward, the faint
blue levels of the Pacific. Another region, worthy of
any mountain's beholding, Tacoma sees, somewhat
vague and dim in distance it sees the sweet Arcadian
valley of the Willamette, charming with
park and grove. In no older world where men have,
in all their happiest moods, recreated themselves for
generations in taming earth to orderly beauty, have
they achieved a fairer garden than nature's simple
labor of love has made there, giving to rough pio
neers the blessings and the possible education of re
fined and finished landscape, in the presence of land
scape strong, savage and majestic All this Tacoma
beholds, as I can but briefly hint; and as one who
ib a seer himself becomes a tower of light and illu
mination to the world, so Tacoma, so every brother
seer of his among the lofty snow peaks, stands to ed
ucate, by his inevitable presence, every dweller there
abouts. Our race has never yet come into contact
with great mountains as companions of daily life, nor
felt that daily development of the finer and more
comprehensive senses, which these signal facts of na
ure compel. That is an influence of the future. The
Oregon people, in a climate where being is bliss,
bere every breath is a draught of vivid life; these
Oregon people, carrying to a new and grander New
England of the Wm. fill low n,.WL .11.. 1 '
an idea, under whose teaching the man of lowest am-
Ti m? 8tiU have 80me little indestructible re
Po or himself, and the brute of most tyranical
aspirations somo Uftu i . J .
i10Pft ,. . 1W icdcui ior omers carrying
Uere a rehnon turn f,,v
or,,An i . VVUfcUUC0 mniier on man wo
S"M "raism of the parity; carrying
! i2;t,0itory where it will not suffer by
8)6tPtn8 of thoucht anH n : ti. . . ....i
dSa.' 8 f S "ce- elopkg under the best,