Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

BEYOND THE WEST.
Scarce had she recovered fromn her weakness, when
An ancient eagle of the bald head kind,
Winging his dreary way to'ards some lone glen,
Where was her nest, with four plump eaglets lined,
Espied the fish, which he judged quite a treat,
And just the morsel for his little ones to eat.
And sailing in spiral circles o'er the spot
Where lay his pray, then hovering for a time
To take his wary aim, he stooped and caught
His booty, which he carried to a lofty tree,
Upon whose topmost branches he first adjusted
His awkward load ere with his claws he crushed it.
' Ill is the wind that blows no person good;'
So said the adage, and as luck would have it,
A huge gray eagle out in search of food,
Who just had whet his hunger with a rabbit,
Attacked the other, and the pair together
In deadly combat fell into the river.
Our friend, of course, made off when she'd done falling,
Some sixty yards, and well indeed she might,
For ne'er, perhaps, a fish got such a mauling
Since Adam's time, or went up such a bight
Into the air and come down helter-skelter,
As did this poor production of melter.
All this, with many other dangers, she survived,
roo manifold in this short space to mention;
So we'll suppose her to have now arrived
Safe at the Falls, without much more detention
Than one could look for, where so many liked her
Company, and so many Indians spiked her.
And here a mighty barrrier stops her way,
The tranquil water finding in its course
Itself beset with rising rocks, which lay
As though they said,'return ye to your source,'
Bursts with indignation, fury, from its bondage, now
Rushes in foaming torrents to the chasm below.
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