Monday, October 29, 2012

A Fall Hike

WONDERS
What wonders lie in every mountain day!
Crystals of snow, plash of small raindrops,
hum of small insects, booming beetles,
the jolly rattle of grasshoppers, chirping crickets,
the screaming of hawks, jays, and Clark crows,
the 'coo-r-r-r' of cranes, the honking of geese,
partridges drumming, trumpeting swans, frogs croaking,
the whirring rattle of snakes,
the awful enthusiasm of booming falls,
the roar of cataracts, the crash and roll of thunder,
earthquake shocks, the whisper of rills soothing to slumber,
the piping of marmots, the bark of squirrels,
the laugh of a wolf, the snorting of deer,
the explosive roaring of bears, the squeak of mice,
the cry of the loon-loneliest, wildest of sounds.
What wonders lie in every mountain day!


The Poetry of John Muir 1838-1914





 


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