[pct-l] "The Skyline Trail"

[losthiker at sisqtel.net (Deems)]

Hikers,
This verse is from the book "The Skyline Trail" by
Mary Carolyn Davies, written in 1924. It, I feel fits
the feeling and spirit we feel about wilderness trails,
the PCT, the Skyline trail in Oregon, and the Cascade
Crest trail in Washington. Words from eighty years ago 
still ring true today....hikon..
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--"The Skyline Trail"--
                              ~
God threw a giant rock against the sky
And here it stays, grim, high
And is a mountain. Clouds grow out of it.
It's trees reach bit by bit
Stealthily nearer the moon.
Their stretching, greedy hands will have it soon.
                              ~                 
The mountain speaks not; and on either hand
Silent and grim its brother mountains stand.
Earth heaved ino the heavens, dizzily high
Shows black-outlined against the white of sky.
And on that outline, where the steps that fail
Mean death, come, let us take the Skyline Trail.
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-----------Mary Carolyn Davies-1924-----------