--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Barker, Floyd R. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 24 number: 1 published: 1920-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Barker, Floyd R., "Grand Teton," *Improvement Era* 24, no. 1 (November 1920): 77.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2401unse start_page: 77 end_page: 77 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1920-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2401unse publication_year: 1920 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1920, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Grand Teton Grand Teton Salaam! Stark peak, with heaven-piercing shaft! Upon thy summit storm-winds find a home, And through the cold, pure air-lanes eagles pass To perch their eyries on thy granite dome. Up-flinging thy hoar head among the clouds, The cheap and noisy company of men Thou hast disdained. Thy austere solitude Proclaims a cosmic truth beyond the ken Of human mind: the great infinitude Of God's creative might. Thy baffling walls, By age-old tools of wind and storm planed smooth, Forbid man's trespass when adventure calls. So standest thou, a prophet, gray, aloof. When thou wert carved the gods of grandeur laughed. Salaam! Stark peak, with heaven-piercing shaft! Floyd R. Barber. Paris, Idaho