It takes a mighty big sky to frame masterpieces like these
Excerpt from “Sunset at Bear Camp”
John Greenleaf Whittier
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Touched by a light that hath no name,
A glory never sung,
Photo courtesy of Merritt Stites
Aloft on sky and mountain wall
Are God's great pictures hung.
Photo courtesy of Trevor Manternach
How changed the summits vast and old!
No longer granite-browed,
Photo courtesy of jdwheaton
They melt in rosy mist; the rock
Is softer than the cloud…
Image courtesy of Milano Liberi
What unseen altar crowns the hills
That reach up stair on stair?
Photo courtesy of Isolino
What eyes look through, what white wings fan
These purple veils of air?
Photo courtesy of richdrogpa
What Presence from the heavenly heights
To those of earth stoops down?
Image courtesy of Milano Liberi
Not vainly Hellas dreamed of gods
On Ida's snowy crown!
Photo courtesy of theilr
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Photo sent to us by Barbara - along with this comment: Hi MY-WEST.COM .... I looked at your amazing cloud photos, and here is mine ... taken (not in the wild west) but in South Africa one summer night!
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