Enchantment (Guadalupe Mountains)

Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy evensong; And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heavens' wide pathless way; -John Milton (1608-1674), Il Penseroso

Sleepy Light (Rainier)

Your courteous lights in vain you waste, Since Juliana here is come, For she my mind hath so displaced That I shall never find my home. -Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), The Mower to the Glow-Worms

Silver Night (Rainier)

Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close:     Bless us then with wishèd sight,     Goddess excellently bright. -Ben Johnson (1572-1637), Hymn to Diana, from Cynthia's Revels

Beckon (Rainier)

Let us go in; the fog is rising. -Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Attributed last words. A Certain World

Gone into the Light (Rainier)

They are all gone into the world of light!     And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright,     And my sad thoughts doth clear. -Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Silex Scintillans (1655), They Are All Gone

I Saw Eternity (Rainier)

I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light.     All calm, as it was bright; And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,     Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow mov'd; in which the world     And all her train were hurl'd. -Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Silex Scintillans (1655), The World

Dance of the Spirit (Rainier)

While all the night, through fog-smoke white, Glimmered the white Moon-shine. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798

Meet Me by Moonlight (Rainier)

Meet Me by Moonlight Alone. -Joseph Augustine Wade (1796-1845), Title of Poem

Immortality (Rainier)

Lead me from the unreal to the real! Lead me from darkness to light! Lead me from death to immortality! -The Upanishads (800-500 B.C.), Brihadaranyaka Upanishad