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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday December 30, 1987 - Page 7 'arah E. Barton it-fa- ll The silence of vast sand deserts With the dance of Wind dirges, through arches and bridges And ancient Moqui caves; devil-heatwave- s, The rush of wild mad rivers With secrets of lives they have claimed In their turbulent haste to the ocean Through a wilderness untamed. The shimmer of summits, Streams silenced neath ice and deep snow; The whining winds and winter sprites That alone your grandeurs know; white-cappe- d The forbidding black night of caverns Apogean haunts shunned by man That even the thundering torrents t Touch not with their fiery hand. Alone on bright heights or in shadows A sacred sublimity I feel There I worship In Gods First Temples And in reverent humility kneel. Abajo! These sights and sounds and silences In my heart surge forever on Oh! I would for the trump of an angel to sound The Symphony of San Juan. Sarah Elizabeth Perkins Barton was horn at Cedar City in 1886. She came to San Juan County as a child with her parents, Benjamin and Sarah Perkins, with settlers. She passed away in 1983 at age 97. Symphony of San Juan was written in the 1950s. The complete composition includes a prelude and a postlude to the middle section printed above. Hole-in-the-Ro- i |