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All Aboard for Zion Canyons Were Wholly Different WASHINGTON COUNTY NEWS, ST. GEQEGE, UTAH JUNE 23, 1927 All Aboard For Zion canyons were wholly different. I eyes.' I can't do even as the College By Henry Irving Dodge confess I didn't see how that could girl would do for I can't tell you how in The Elks Magazine be. But I soon found that they were I reacted to the scene. I don't think different in every respect, but the Once upon a time the good Lord I reacted at all. I was wonder- coloring—and. perhaps, they were said: "Men have been doing foolish stricken, that's all—plumb wonder- different even in the coloring. things—trying to interpret me. I'll stricken. I utterly failed at. first to What can one do when he has but give them a hint. I'll make some­ take in the beauty of it. But my •a week in which to view the major thing graceful, dignified for them to spiritual eyes gradually opened as canyons? The digestive organs of follow. For I love the beautiful." we progressed into Zion Canyon. his imagination are clogged. He is For the approach into this wonder­ Then the good Lord—obviously fortunate if he can, in the retrospect, the use of the pronoun here is in- land is gradual. keep them even hazily distinct and We left Cedar City, southwestern pertinent—made Zion Canyon. separate. There are smaller, or bet­ "Sublime," observed the good Utah, a night's train ride from Salt ter, less magnificent canyons—sub­ Lake City, about nine o'clock in the Lord, "but not enough." Again the ordinate canyons to be visited which good Lord picked up His chisel, morning. Traveling by a great- one never heard of. Any of smooth-riding automoble bus over a gouged out the earth and fashioned these "little fellows," if it were the the Grand Canyon. I fine road and through moderately only, one of its kind extant would be I picturesque scenery, and all keyed- Again the good Lord contemplated worth going around the world to His. handiwork: "Too magnificent, -up for the first sight of the canyon, see. we made the sixty-two-mile trip to too thunderous, too gloomy, too som­ Verily, on reaching Bryce Canyon, ber, too terrifying. I'll give them Zion National Park in a little more after standing subdued in .wonder on than three hours. something in lighter vein, fanciful— the North Rim of the Grand, one Nature is the greatest of all dram­ for I love the fanciful." wouldn't have given it a second atists. She never perpetrates an So the good Lord swung His chisel glance if its distinctly different beau­ anti-climax unless man meddles with into the earth again and gouged out ty did not enchant one. I can't ex­ her work. The approach to Zion is a great bowl—Bryce Canyon. Giv­ plain. I can only say, "Go see for no exception. The scenery up to a ing free rein to His fancy, the good yourself." certain -point lias been progressively Lord fashioned in this bowl all kinds As for describing the scenery with beautiful. Suddenly we rounded a of figures and on its walls He etched my feeble pen, I can only say that no curve and entered at the rear of a almost everything that was ever one would have the impudence to at­ vast amphitheatre. Away in front of made as if recording the history of tempt it but a college girl or a pat­ us was the stage. We approached as all creation—from then to now. ent lawyer, whose business it is to if we would enter upon it. Here is But more of this later. describe everything, but whose stuff the setting. Mark well the meta- - One said to me, "Go to Zion Can­ no one ever reads. yon for the spiritual influence of it. phors. "The Watchman"—a moun­ The experience of Kipling is con­ If you are threatened with the effect tain on the east—guards well .the soling. The noted Englishman was — without — cause superstition — approach. Having passed this guar­ standing on the bank of the Colum­ , atheism—go there. Go there, and dian in safety, we laid our pro-pition- bia River—notebook and pencil in while you're there for the Good al offerings upon the "Altar of Sacri­ hand. Lord's sake, keep still. Don't try to fice," a slender, flat-topped pinnacle "What yer doin'?" said a native, describe it. Just contemplate. of ivory, stained red, it seemed, with approaching. Humbly, joyously contemplate." the blood of martyrs. We next pas­ "Trying to write a description of sed "Bridge Mountain"—on the east Said another, "If you want to look it." —and entered into Zion proper. into Heaven, go ipto Zion Canyon and ' "Bub, yer better put up yer pencil However, we found other rites and look upward; if you want to look in- i and paper because it just simply cermonies to perform before entering to Hell, stand on the edge of the can't be done." to Sublime Presence. We passed tlio Grand Canyon and look down." I was told that Kipling said later, "Court of the Three Patriarchs," In a way this is true, for you dwell fl when writing about the Yellowstone, pausing a moment to contemplate in the bottom of Zion and look up "I don't expect anybody to believe their magnificance. Again we did, where the chaste, granite figures this." If I were gifted enough to homage—devout and reverent con- • point into the sky. At the Grand, convey even a suggestion of the won­ templation—at the "Temple of the you stand on the rim and look down ders of the canyons, I'd repeat the Sun," whose Summit catches the first —down into a red inferno. That's J later words of Kipling. glimmer of the rising sun and re­ the way it struck me. From the The college girl, unless the good flects the last glories of the same. bottom of Zion, you look up and Lord should guide her hand, would worship and appeal, but you draw tell you of her reactions to the scene. We proceeded at. leisure through back from the edge of the Grand But you would not get anything of the main court to the base of "El Canyon in terror. what the scene was. The patent Gobernador, the Great White So much lias been written of the lawyer or the civil engineer would Throne," whereon the foot of man vast and awful splendors of the give you the facts and figures, geom­ has never trod. While worshiping Grand Canyon of the Colorado, that etrical descriptions. But, oh, what's here the rustle of the angel's wings the sublime beauty of Zion has been (he use! I doubt even if Poe would on "Angel's Landing" (in front of overlooked. .attempt it. the Throne) and the chimes of the , After visiting Zion, Bryce, Grand, I can only say that the many color­ "Great. Organ" (at its side) may be , Cedar Breaks, my loyalty for my first ed photographs I have seen are not a heard (in fancy) in the sighing of love—Zion—is unshaken. whit exaggerated in color—and of the wind through the trees and the I had heard that the three great course, not. in form. This I know. For this I have seen with my own a ogist in the services of the Govern­ gurgling and swishing of the river ment, wrote: display of vertical moldings, and the as it wends its way over the stones. "In an hour's time we reached the Remember these great forms are not ridges, eaves and inhered angles are crest of the isthmus and there flash­ fretted with serrated cusps—small mountains as we always think' of ed before us a scene never to be for­ mountains but colossal pinnacles of projecting ornaments common in gotten. In coming time, it will, I Gothic tracery. Exact symmetry Is ivory, it would seem, vari-colored believe, take rank with a very small and with naked sides—some like wanting, but Nature lias brought number of spectacles each of which home to us the truth that symmetry loaves of bread standing on end. will, in its own way, he regarded as Zion Canyon is a group or cluster of ,is only one of the infinite range of the most exquisite of its kind which devices by which beauty can be real­ these—an intimate family group, the world discloses. one might say. A museum of the ized. "Across the Canyon stands the "And finer forms are in the quarry Gods—a garden of heavenly spectres. central object of the picture, the In reverent mood, you may pro­ Than ever Angelo evoked!" West Temple, rising four thousand To my impudent, inerudite soul all ceed to the "Temple of Sinawava" £»»* above the river. Its glorious and worship in your own untrammel- the canyons lacked symmetry in summit was the object we had seen whole and in detail. But what does ed way; then on to the "Mountain of an hour before. Yet it is only the Mystery" and work your own charms man's sense of symmetry amount to central object of a mighty throng of in the Divine Scheme of things? trying to unfold Nature's secrets structures wrought up to the same concerning it. Thus endeth the Another writer—lie must have exalted style. Here are great pedi­ been a painter or a geologist or a metaphor.
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