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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By EllaHigginson

1494 Moonrise in the Rockies

THE TREMBLING train clings to the leaning wall

Of solid stone; a thousand feet below

Sinks a black gulf; the sky hangs like a pall

Upon the peaks of everlasting snow.

Then of a sudden springs a rim of light,

Curved like a silver sickle. High and higher—

Till the full moon burns on the breast of night,

And a million firs stand tipped with lucent fire.