Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-08-07 | Page 6 | Word Picture Describes Wonderful Beauties of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone-a Scene of Unrivaled Splendor-Where Our Guests Will Spend Their Vacations

WORD PICTURE DESCRIBES WONDERFUL BEAUTIES OP THE GRAND CANYON OF THE , YELLOWSTONE A SCENE OF UNRIVALED SPLENDOR WHERE OUR GUESTS WILL SPEND THEIR VACATIONS TrRAND CANYON INN. GRAND CANYON OF THE YELLOWSTONE. THE CANYON. How shall I begin? Words are inadequate! in-adequate! The beautiful whole bursts upon you, majestic, rlchj wonderful A mass of color, daubed and blended. The falls in the distance, the river below. The syitelv walls and tiny statues. Tho cupolas and the minarets. min-arets. Such vastness and such beauty. I could never forget it The very word 'Yellowstone" brings the picture back again. In summer sunsets lingering glow," When night wind whispers Boft and low, In silent ci 11 entranced I fall And leave the piesent hour and all. A masterpiece, great and sublime, Unequaled In all lapse of time", Beautiful, magnificent, Corallnc with safron blent, A tossing, tumbling water fall, Tho rainbow cliffs, the perfect all. The sculpture of this Canyon Grand Was Art of the Creator's HauJ, Fach l:ny turret and minaret In color r'ch was grandly set. The eagle thcro his nest had mado By cupola of garnet shade. Oil sloping wall, far down below Was caught tho summer sunset's glow Quaint carvings of fair maids and seers Were stianrclv made on cliff and wall Scarcely above, tho eagle's call. 1 see a tow'ring cliff of gold, Brilliant beside it, of perfect mould, Flaring in color to river'-s bed, Powerful, almighty, a radiant wall of led. Boundlug down In abyss deep I caw tho foaming waters leap. Silent again the thunderous tread, As they Join the rher's silver thread. Sheer above, from morning light, The wallB, superb, till fall of nlghL The picture fades, I break the spell; What I have seen I ne'er can tell: 'Tie beyond tho power ot any man. Mere word- would mar that Canon Granc" THODA STANDCLIFFE COCKROFT. oo