KAATERSKILL FALLS by William Cullen Bryant

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Jun 16, 1904

KAATERSKILL FALLS

By William Cullen Bryant

MIDST greens and shades the Kaaterskill leaps, From cliffs where the wood-flower clings; All summer he moistens his verdant steeps With the sweet light spray of the mountain springs; And he shakes the woods on the mountain side. When they drip with the rains of autumn-tide.

But when, in the forest bare and old, The blast of December calls, He builds, in the starlight clear and cold, A palace of ice where his torrent falls, With turret, and arch, and fretwork fair; And pillars blue as the summer air.

— William Cullen Bryant.

Kaaterskill Falls, in the Heart of the Catskills