Azurous Hung Hills - Near Helena, Montana

• “And the azurous hung hills are his world-wielding shoulder…”
• - Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) from Hurrahing in Harvest
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Harvest Stack - Near Helena, Montana

“Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise

Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour

• Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier
• Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?”
• - Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) from Hurrahing in Harvest
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Almost Autumn - Missoula, Montana

"WHAT is there sadd'ning in the Autumn leaves?

Have they that "green and yellow melancholy"

That the sweet poet spake of? Had he seen

Our variegated woods, when first the frost

Turns into beauty all October's charms—

...With a bright bow of many colours hung

Upon the forest tops—he had not sigh'd...."

- from The Indian Summer by William Cullen Bryant