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BIG TREES IN MARIPOSA, by                    
First Line: I stood with awe in silence on the ground
Last Line: But these majestic giants still live on!
Subject(s): Mariposa County, California; Trees


I stood with awe in silence on the ground,
Where Mariposa monarchs, grim and gray
Like vast cathedrals, stand with foliage crowned, --
The oldest living things on earth today.
Through centuries the fire-fiend swept in vain
Around their grizzled trunks; they seem to scorn
The snow and hail, wild hurricane and rain!
These trees were old before our Christ was born!

Man's greatest works endure for but a day;
The Pyramids, beneath Egyptian skies,
Are slowly crumbling to complete decay;
For marble fane a heap of ruins lies.
Unnumbered dynasties have come and gone,
But these majestic giants still live on!





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