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MOONRISE IN THE ROCKIES, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trembling train clings to the leaning wall
Last Line: And a million firs stand tipped with lucent fire.
Subject(s): Rocky Mountain Range


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.





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