Mount Shasta Collection

Poetry

 

"Ode to the Shasta Alpine Lodge" by Chief Yola Wintu
Mount Shasta Herald, July 21, 1927, page 7

 

ODE TO THE SHASTA ALPINE LODGE

 

By Chief Yola Wintu

 

Land of the turquoise sky
Eight thousand feet above worry level.
Where the planets shine brightest
On the fringe of the covering snow.
Where the pine grouse sounds his drum
And the Clark's crow feeds its young.
Where the soaring eagle scanning wide
And the frisky chipmunk seeks to hide.
The hunted stag finds his well earned
rest
And the eager mountaineer seeks his
quest.
There is where I wish to go
To the land of the lasting ice and snow.