Redwoods, Humboldt County Painting

A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection—-a thought impalpable, to breath, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing—or hamadryads departing; A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and air, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the redwood forest dense. Farewell, my brethren, Farewell, O earth and sky—farewell, ye neighboring waters; My time has ended, my term has come. Along the northern coast, Just back from the rock-bound shore, and the caves, In the saline air from the sea, in the Mendocino country, With the surge for bass and accompaniment low and hoarse, With crackling blows of axes, sounding musically, driven by strong arms, Riven deep by the sharp tongues of the axes—there in the redwood forest dense, I heard the mighty tree its death-chant chanting. The choppers heard not—the camp shanties echoed not; The quick-ear'd teamsters, and chain and jack-screw men heard not, As the wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising over a hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs—out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time—chant not of the past only, but the future.

Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:12 W x 18 H x 0.1 D in

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