"Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough."
"Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind."
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Source: Joaquin Miller (1871). “Songs of the Sierras”, p.107
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