Burton Holmes travelogues (1908) (14773475262)

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Identifier: burtonholmest19086holm (find matches)
Title: Burton Holmes travelogues
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, 1870-1958
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York : McClure Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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workmanship, it is comparatively insignificant ; this is but asingle isolated terrace — it is as nothing when we standbelow the veritable mountain where the same phenomenaare reproduced in countless numbers. But here the fact isvividly impressed upon us that these springs, like mortal men,are subject to the awful law of death — the streams of life areever changing in their course. To-day they are flowing herefrom terrace to terrace, bowl to bowl, clothing them allwith brilliancy and warmth, creating things of beauty todelight a generation. They will in time forsake this slope,and then it, like the one down which the warm flood coursedin earlier days, will gradually grow white with age, dry withneglect, and finally, enfeebled by the alternating shocks ofheat and cold, wind and rain, its graceful, snow-white, death-like forms will crumble to powder to be trampled underfootby the travelers of future years. But meantime otherbeautiful structures will have been created. As we turn our
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Photograph by P. Jay Haynes, St. Paul CLEOPATRA TERRACE :.*« YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 23 dazzled eyes upon these marvelous productions of an unseenworker, we realize that perennial beauty is destined to reignhere, as in the human race, although an impartial providencehas decreed that individual loveliness shall be ephemeral.

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