| Show SEQUOIA FOREST A OF ANTIQUITY has seen civilizations rise and crash it was possibly only yesterday by geologic time when the sequoia forest began its definite existence years at a guess two hundred million years ago it was ell established and had fixed hab its much as at present passing lightly over years 10 eara ago the genus homo began to talo refuge in its branches in the when moses was a mountain climber on a portion of the earths crust very nearly the an of the peninsula a region that was not to receive the name of california for some forty centuries a forest of sequoias stretched their green and glossy aln gers into the shimmering western sky for an pe through summer and winter cold and hent seed time and har vest day and night it had pressed inch by inch into the firmament ring by ring it had imperceptibly added to its girth and babylon Bi bylon rome an carthage tyre and jerusalem Jerus ilem rose and fell avrus and genghis khan alexander julius chesir and napoleon conquered the horld con duclus and jesus and mo swayed the realm of the spirit solomon and socrates gall leo and darwin produced the bitter and potent fruit of the mind nomer and vergil and dante and shakespeare gave to the world of the imagination a local habitation pericles and aspasea Asp asla paolo and francesca launcelot and guinevere counted the world well lost for the brief ecstasy of love the sequoia forest untroubled by the rise and fall of nations ancon of the sulphurous depths of and oe of the human spar it unchanged by the cataclysmic changes in the world of human thought mercifully untouched even by terrestrial cataclysms that overwhelmed many a mountain and plain scattered its golden pollen in the spring its ripened cones in alie fall sang its inimitable dreamy song when the winds passed through it almost within sound of its hush ing great civilizations came to ma turley and sank into the soli so deep that the youngest even now la inarticulate alice day pratt in the atlantic monthly |
