physical conditions, ambition slowly rallied, and while lying for
several months a patient in various hospitals in an ineffectual attempt
to regain even partial sight, the following ideas and efforts of past
years were gradually recalled from the recesses of memory, and reduced
to their present form, in which, with no small hesitation and misgiving,
they are presented to the consideration of the reading public, which in
the humble opinion of the author has frequently failed to receive and
appreciate productions of vastly superior merit.

_Ouray, Colorado, March 15, 1901._


[Illustration:
"I stood at sunrise on the topmost part,
Of lofty mountain, massively sublime."

MOUNT WILSON, SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO.]


Mountain Idylls and Other Poems




Grandeur.

Dedicated to the mountains of the San Juan district, Colorado, as seen
from the summit of Mt. Wilson.