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3 spiced with dust of garnets zircons many a nameless gem, when food was gathered for the forests all their elected life;
when every rock form was finished, every mon- ument raised, the willing messengers unwearied unwasted heard Gods well done
from heaven calling them back to their homes in the sky - January 8th 72. Dear friend. We are gloriously snowbound. One
storm has filled half of last month, it is snowing again would that you could behold its beauty I half expect another glacial
period, but I will not say anything about ice untill you become wiser but I send you a cascade jubilee wh you will relish
more than anybody else, I have tried to put it in form for publication, if you can rasp off the rougher angles wedge in a
few slippery words between bad splices perhaps it may be sufficiently civilized for Overland or Atlantic but I always felt
a chill come over my fingers when a calm place in the storm allowed me to think of it. Also I have been sorry for one of our
bears I think you will sympathize with me. At least I confide my dead friends to your keeping you may print what you like
Heavens If you only had been here in the flood