Canyon Sunset Painting

Time and a river flowing, The river flowing free, From snowy mountain summits, To a balmy tropic sea. The Colorado River, A river running free, It carved a stupendous canyon, For all the word to see. Six million winter snow falls, The snowflakes falling free, Six million years of spring melts, Have rushed to meet the sea. The Kaibab Plateau rising, The river keeping pace? The tidal delta growing, An isostatic race? As upward went the Plateau, So downward cut the stream, Its riffles and its rapids, Down cut a mighty seam. Each surge of the raging river, Laid bare a rocky page, Layer after layer eroding, Each of an older age. Time and a river flowing, The river running free, The book of time was opened, To reveal earth's history. Time and a river flowing, Now concrete spillway drops, Restrain the annual flooding, And irrigate the crops. Vulcan tried to dam the canyon, Such conflict of water and fire! Though the lavas dammed the canyon, They fell to the river's ire. Two billion years of Earth's time, Or three score years and ten? How mighty is the canyon, How frail the works of men! Time and a river flowing, The river flowing free, Past the ruins of former dam-sites, After man has ceased to be!

Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:18 W x 24 H x 0.1 D in

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