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Show Black Rock by Moonlight from a Painting by H. L. A.Culmor, i This picture shows Black Rock by Moonlight. ' On the southern shore of the great salt sea; i lonely in the midnight, desolate in the dawn; waters that slide like slithering metal met-al so dense, so heavy, so mobile. Silver Sil-ver in the moonlight, leaden in the mist, golden in the sunset; washing with a wandering wan-dering gurgle in the calm, booming with tempestuous tempes-tuous mightiness in the storm. But lonely, lonely, lonely. Lonely for thousands of years and "'until a saddened and desperate remnant came to people these shores and stir the dc stillness to life . and human companionship. Then, half a century of struggle and strain, and a rock-built stronghold silhouetted against the western sky, built strongly by a pioneer, and lashed vainly by winter tempeste that swept against it from the north; or standing serenely in the quiet silvery moonlight ''Hring many a long night throughout the years, as it still stands. But no longer in loneliness. Men of brain and men of brawn, hundreds and hundreds of them, are now throwing down and leveling the neighboring hillsides, building gi-gantic gi-gantic breastworks, cutting enormous gashes, run-ning run-ning lines skilfully with instruments, planning tre-mendous tre-mendous structures, erecting the- most gigantic smokertunnels and chimneys ever seen on the face of the earth; and plotting huge furnaces that are to send a red glow nightly far across the waves of the strange salt sea.. The monarch, cop. Mielmeted, will send his smoky breath across land and sea, and nevermore shall we witness the clear and poetic stillness of "Black Rock by Moonlight." |