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BUT WHEN I SAW GRAND CANYON, by                    
First Line: The painted desert taught my soul to sing
Last Line: And majesty, and silence like a prayer.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grand Canyon, Arizona


The Painted Desert taught my soul to sing,
But when I saw Grand Canyon I was mute,
Stilled by this vast, this dread, imponderable thing,
As a sudden stricken lark, or unstrung lute.

To speak profaning word, I did not dare,
The Great White Spirit, He, Himself, was there,
And majesty, and silence like a prayer.





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