Moonrise in the Rockies

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The trembling train clings to the leaning wall
  Of solid stone; a thousand feet below
Sinks a black gulf; the sky hangs like a pall
  Upon the peaks of everlasting snow.

Then of a sudden springs a rim of light,  
  Curved like a silver sickle. High and higher—
Till the full moon burns on the breast of night,
  And a million firs stand tipped with lucent fire.

© Ella Higginson