Show fi t VIEW f Complete solitude Seated on the breast of a hillside amid the mountains I was alone but hut for the stars that g glittered glit- glit t- t overhead The cold gray hills circled circled circled cir cir- cled away on each side and blended with the dark sky in the distance as human life is lost in relations of mystery The stillness was profound The icy wind that hastened by in its freakish anger sent a shudder of dread through me me-me me me a mere meie speck clinging to the great earth Far below at the base of the f foothills F lay the sleeping city checkered by electric electric elec elec- lights blinking in the darkness It was suggestive of a shoe horse-shoe studded with diamonds lying by a heap of stones As I glanced from the sparkling horseshoe horseshoe horseshoe horse horse- shoe to yon mystic lights shining countless countless countless count count- less and eternal in the heavens I arose to tomy tomy tomy my feet and my shoulders seemed to pierce the clouds for I saw the whole earth and its inhabitants from the point of view of eternity A watch dog howled in the distance It was perhaps baying the new moon moo just ascending from behind the snow-capped snow to the east and revealing with its faint light the whitened mountains for some distance to the south but still leaving leaving leav leav- ing the lower end of the great valley in tomb-like tomb darkness The blinking arc lights glistened less brilliantly And on ona a foothill just above the city could now be discerned the back outline of the large I granite tower It stood there a sentinel of the city his head bowed down for want of sleep his cloak buckled tightly round his shoulders and his back turned against the fierce winds sweeping down City Creek canyon The dog howled again and moaned Its moaning voice told of the vast variety of human life that was resting in the city below It brought to mind the great novels of literature with their stories of love of ot ideals of ambition of woe of sin It recalled the outline of the history of man man his his intellectual and moral strivings strivings strivings ings set over against his shames There was a distant ringing of bells It must be the curfew warning the little ruffians to leave the streets for the night Ah what sorrow and pain and sin those little fellows must endure throughout life because of the accidents of birth And there against the mountains of the east shine faintly a row of lights at Fort Douglas Douglas Douglas-a a necessary appendage of Government Government Government Gov Gov- because education has has has' not attained to its ideals Far down the the valley came the shrill tooting of a atrain atrain atrain train the great headlight of the engine shining several miles away Thou wonder wonder wonder won won- der of the century thou emblem of civilization civilization civilization thou art rt but the prophecy of future future future fu fu- ture years I feel the divinity urging within me good to be alone But what could that small cluster of beautiful red lights be in the midst of the half thousand whitish ones I had not noticed them before They looked like a rose tree the symbol of the beautiful Yes they were merely the incandescent lights around the grounds of the city and county building I thought I would now descend from the hill pick my way in the darkness over the benches of sagebrush and look more more carefully and henceforth for the trees rose-trees in life |