Download or read book In Colors of the West (Classic Reprint) written by Glenn Ward Dresbach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Colors of the West In Western Mountains He stood a moment at the edge Of that cliff, looking out with me Upon great valleys ending in the haze, And mountains that from hazes drove a wedge Of snow in skies of lapis lazuli. Then something of the littleness of days His life could span came to him dizzily And he, who boasted of his might with men, Turned back and grasped a little cedar tree Nearby, for safety and he shut his eyes, Shaken, and would not turn to look again ... Back from that cliff-edge jutting out to skies He climbed and spoke at last with heavy breath, "God, what a place! What is it? Life or Death?" Our words seemed much in vain. How many Ages helped those heights attain Such silence in the sun, O silent One? ... He threw a stone, upon the crest, At some dwarfed bush he made his mark. A gray bird fluttered from her nest With startled cries, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.