A GREAT ROCK ON THE AMERICAN NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.
Among white peaks a rock, hewn altar-wise,
Marks the long frontier of our mighty lands.
Apart its dark tremendous sculpture stands,
Too steep for snow, and square against the skies.
In other shape its buttressed masses rise
When seen from north or south; but eastward set,
God carved it where two sovereignties are met,
An altar to His peace, before men’s eyes.
Of old there Indian mystics, fasting, prayed;
And from its base to distant shores the streams
Take sands of gold, to be at last inlaid
Where ocean’s floor in shadowed splendour gleams.
So in our nations’ sundered lives be blent
Love’s golden memories from one proud descent!
(John Douglas Sutherland Campbell)
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