id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13809 King, Alfred Castner Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems .txt text/plain 16792 1436 83 MOUNTAIN SCENE, SAN JUAN COUNTY, COLORADO.] Nor tear thy fond heart from its fervent embrace. Shall live, as the heavens eternal endure! Wilt Thou Thy mercy still reveal, Break thou thy silence, ominous and deep, "Breathe thou thy message," shrieked the frantic knight To bear thee company, till thou repent." As thou dost view the wastes of earth and sky, Child of a fleeting hour, thou too must die to know. Knowest thou the secret of the future life? Child of a transient day, thou too, to know, must die. Hast thou, observant from thy astral poise, Hast thou beheld the rise and fall of man, As thy dark form eclipsed the smiling sun. From thy celestial 'minions thou hast seen Thou shed'st thy mellow rays and lit the way The heavens were silent as those forms were fair; Thou who hast seen them fail and pass away ./cache/13809.txt ./txt/13809.txt