In a slow descending wall
  The glacier wrought;
Beneath the frigid pall
  Were boulders caught.

With jar and roar the granite floor
  Gives dust for dust in grinding,
The ages store forever more--
  An endless skein unwinding.

By surge of icy tide
  Torn rocks are hurled.
Whose shattered fragments hide
  An ancient world.

At some command, in scanty sand,
  Young tender lives now enter;
On tossed land, two frail ferns stand
  A cycled aeon center.

--Edmund S. Meany

How YOU Can Help The
Naturalist Work in Mt. Rainier
National Park.

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Dedicated to public service and the development of a greater appreciation of the National Parks by the people of the nation, the naturalist department has been materially aided by thoughtful donations from those whom it has served in the past. Books on natural history, on human history of the Pacific Northwest, on Indian lore, interesting historical photographs or news clippings relative to the park, and magazines (such as) NATURE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, AMERICAN FORESTS, NATURAL HISTORY, BIRD LORE, and the like have swelled our library and have facilitated a better presentation of the interesting features of this park to our visiting public through the various mediums at our command.