"Moonrise in the Rockies"

Moonrise in the Rockies

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. 

"Moonrise in the Rockies" as it appears in Ella Higginson's When the Birds Go North Again (1898).