y?

Ah, Allah is great; but Love is great
When the woman-heart needs make atoning and wait:
She has led him back to the crystal gate,--
Together they entered there.
The Great Steep's Garden is musked today:
The spices of Araby over it lay,
For Love's handmaiden has passed this way,
Forget-me-nots tressed in her hair.

[Illustration: Indian Paint Brush]

Indian Paint Brush.

Brave bold warrior, standing afar
On the summit place where the wind-torn pine
At the battle front of the timberline
Knows never an end of the harrowing war
Of Life on Death!--and there arrayed
In the trappings of battle and unafraid,
Painted and feathered in hostile design,
Indian chief on the marching line!

[Illustration: Arctic Gentian]

Arctic Gentian.

Beyond the reach of the timberline,
The long trail lifting, lifting,
Past wizened gardens of low gaunt pine,
Crouching out of the great storm's path:
The last tree flees from the arctic wrath,
But on is the white trail lifting.

Cities and rivers and fields beseem
A fantasy, fading, fading,
Lost away in the myth of a dream:
And the wide land reaches beyond our eyes,
A Navajo carpet of strange soft dyes:
Patterned with cities the great web lies,
Woven with fantasies, fading.

Rolls in the tide and the cloud waves toss,
The reach of the long land merging:
Where the still white surges part and cross
The quivering vistas seem to be
Of a lost land under the waves of a sea.
O summit flower, what strange waves toss
Below in the long, long surging!

[Illustration: Alpine Primrose]

Alpine Primrose.

Happy Heart coming home from the far, far hills,
How the primrose flamed in the arctic chills!
And you heard the flutes of the summit birds:
You will keep forever their sky-lost words,
Happy Heart coming home from the hills.

Transcriber's Note

The handwritten image captions were, in some cases, very difficult to
make out. Following are transcriptions, with [notes] where there was
any doubt about content.

Colorado Columbine (1/2 actual size)
Aquilegia coerulea
Cather Springs, June 27

Small-leaved Saxifrage (1/3 actual size)
Saxifraga parvifolia
Pikes Peak, Aug. 15. 9300 ft. Altitude

Alpine Forget-me-not (natural size)
Mertensia a