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Show They drank slowly and gave thanks With a prayer song. Then eager to reach the peak In time to watch sundown, they crossed the small Snow field, cut footholds into the glacier, Climbed and crossed the towering cliffs, And finally reached the highest peak. A strange joy filled Morning Dove. They sat Above small clustered clouds. The evening wine Cool 3d their blistered feet. Sunfire lay On the horizon. Iverywhere lay the world below. She and Older Brother sat on the fringe of heaven. She wished others might see and feel it, too. Morning Dove looked down to the little mountain pool Beneath the peak. 'To all who reach this sacred peak, I wish joy everlasting." She took off Great Mother's Precious stone and dropped it into the mountain pool. The small pool grew into a little lake, Taking on the deep green of the stone, and capturing Sparks from the sunfire. Today the great glacier Still feeds the little body.of water now known as Emerald Lake, and all who stand on the highest peak And look down into it's great beauty Know peace and an everlasting joy. |