Show SU SUNSET PICTURES Behind the somber mountains That rise against the West The rhe sun in golden glory glor Is sinking to his rest And while the glory lingers But slowly grows more faint taint An artist with Ith swift fingers ringers His magic pictures paint Across the western heavens A mighty brush he sweeps And lo 10 an opal ocean Into our vision leaps With emerald Islets gleaming And ships with sails of ot white whit it t 5 And crimson banners streaming Above a a. sea of light And now a heavenly city Seems rising in the tho skies And palaces and temples temples' Like magic seem to rise A thousand jewels glitter From roof root and dome dome and spire The walls seem built of Jasper Its streets of golden fire tire Tonight a lordly castle Comes from the artists artist's hand Its shining towers and turrets Look over sea and land The mountain peaks above It ItSe Se Seem m touched by sunsets sunset's glow And purple shadows linger Unger Among the tho crags below Now rugged lofty mountains With shining summits rise The colors that enfold them Must come from Paradise See yonder crystal glacier And see the silvery streams And in the far clear distance A sea of turquoise gleams Thus evening after evening New pictures greet our eye Until the nights night's dark curtain Drops oer o'er the western sky Which Is la the greater wonder These pictures of at twilight Or the eye that can perceive them And the soul loul they can delight Norman B. B Dresser |