The dunes sweep for many miles along the Lake Michigan coasts. They are post-glacial, and are undergoing slow continual changes, both in form and place,—the loose sand responding lightly to the action of varying winds.{16}
The “fixed dunes” retain general forms, more or less stable, owing to the scraggly and irregular vegetation that has obtained a foothold upon them, but the “wandering dunes” move constantly. The fine sand is wafted3 in shimmering4 veils across the smooth expanses, over the ridges6 to the lee slopes. It swirls7 in soft clouds from the wind-swept summits, and, in the course of time, whole forests are engulfed8. After years of entombment, the dead trunks and branches occasionally reappear in the path of the destroyer, and bend back with gnarled arms in self-defence, seeming to challenge their flinty foe9 to further conflict.
The general movement is east and southeast, owing to the prevalence of west and northwest winds in this region, which gather force in coming over the waters of the lake. The finer grains, which are washed up on the beach, are carried inland, the coarser particles remaining near the shore. The off-shore winds, being broken by the topography of the country, exercise a less but still noticeable influence. The loose masses retreat perceptibly toward the beach when these winds prevail for any great length of time.{17}
To many this region simply means a distant line of sandy crests10, tree-flecked and ragged11, against the sky on the horizon—a mysterious and unknown waste, without commercial value, and therefore useless from a utilitarian12 standpoint.
It is not the land, but the landscape, not the utility, but the romantic and interesting wild life among these yellow ranges that is of value. It is the picturesque13 and poetic14 quality that we find in this land of enchantment15 that appeals to us, and it is because of this love in our lives that we now enter this strange country.
The landscapes among the dunes are not for the realist, not for the cold and discriminating16 recorder of facts, nor the materialist18 who would weigh with exact scales or look with scientific eyes. It is a country for the dreamer and the poet, who would cherish its secrets, open enchanted19 locks, and explore hidden vistas20, which the Spirit of the Dunes has kept for those who understand.
The winds have here fashioned wondrous21 forms with the shuttles of the air and the mutable sands. Shadowy fortresses22 have been reared and bannered with the pines. Illusive23 distant towers are tinged{18} by the subtle hues25 of the afterglows, as the twilights softly blend them into the glooms. In the fading light we may fancy the outlines of frowning castles and weird28 battlements, with ghostly figures along their heights.
If the desert was of concrete, its mystery and spiritual power would not exist. The deadly silences which nature leaves among her ruins are appalling29, unless brightened by her voices of enduring hope. It is then that our spirits revive with her.
There is an unutterable gloom in the hush31 of the rocky immensities, where, in dim ages past, the waters have slowly worn away the stony32 barriers of the great canyons33 among the mountains. The countless34 centuries seem to hang over them like a pall30, when no living green comes forth35 among the stones to nourish the soul with faith in life to come. We walk in these profound solitudes36 with an irresistible37 sense of spiritual depression.
On Nature’s great palette green is the color of hope. We see it in the leaves when the miracle of the spring unfolds them, and on the ocea{19}n’s troubled waters when the sun comes from behind the curtains of the sky. Even the tiny mosses38 cover with their mantles39 the emblems41 of despair when decay begins its subtle work on the fallen tree and broken stump42.
We find in the dune country whatever we take to it. The repose43 of the yellow hills, which have been sculptured by the winds and the years, reflects the solemnity of our minds, and eternal hope is sustained by the expectant life that creeps from every fertile crevice44.
While the wandering masses are fascinating, it is among the more permanent forms, where nature has laid her restraining hand, that we find the most picturesque material. It is here that the reconstructive processes have begun which impart life to the waste places. At first, among these wastes, one is likely to have a sense of loneliness. The long, undulating lines of ridged sand inspire thoughts of hopeless melancholy45. The sparse46 vegetation, which in its struggle for life pathetically seizes and holds the partially47 fertile spots among these ever-shifting masses, has the appearance of broken submission48. The wildly tangled49 {20}roots—derelicts of the sands—which have been deserted50 and left to bleach51 in the sun by the slow movement of the great hills, emphasize the feeling of isolation52. The changing winds may again give them a winding53 sheet, but as a part of nature’s refuse, they are slowly and steadily54 being resolved back into her crucible55.
To the colorist the dunes present ever-changing panoramas56 of hue24 and tone. Every cloud that trails its purple, phantom-like shadow across them{21} can call forth the resources of his palette, and he can find inspiration in the high nooks where the pines cling to their perilous57 anchorage.
The etcher may revel58 in their wealth of line. The harmonic undulations of the long, serrated crests, with sharp accents of gnarled roots and stunted59 trees, offer infinite possibilities in composition. To the imaginative enthusiast60, seeking poetic forms of line expression, these dwarfed61, neglected, crippled, and wasted things become subtle units in artistic63 arrangement.
As in all landscape, we find much material in these subjects that is entirely64 useless from an artistic standpoint. The thoughtful translator must be rigidly65 selective, and his work must go to other minds, to which he appeals, stripped of dross66 and unencumbered with superfluities. An ugly and ill-arranged mass of light and shade, that may disfigure the foreground, may be eliminated from the composition, but the graceful67 and slender weed growing near it may be used. A low, dark cloud in the distance may be carried a little farther away, if necessary, or it may be blown entirely away, if another cloud—floating only in the realm of im{22}agination—will furnish the desired note of harmony. Truth need not necessarily be fact, but we must not include in our composition that which is not possible or natural to our subject. Representation of fact is not art, in its pure sense, but effective expression of thought, which fact may inspire, is art—and there is but one art, although there are many mediums.
One must feel the spirit and poetry of the dunes, if he deals with them as an artist who would send{23} their story into the world. The magic of successful artistic translation changes the sense of desolation into an impression of wild, weird beauty and romantic charm. It is the wildness, the mystery, the deep solemnity, and the infinite grandeur68 of this region which furnish themes of appealing picturesqueness69.
Man has changed or destroyed natural scenery wherever he has come into practical contact with it. The fact that these wonderful hills are left to us is simply because he has not yet been able to carry away and use the sand of which they are composed. He has dragged the pines from their storm-scarred tops, and is utilizing70 their sands for the elevation71 of city railway tracks. Shrieking72, rasping wheels now pass over them, instead of the crow’s shadow, the cry of the tern, or the echo of waves from glistening73 and untrampled shores.
The turmoil74 and bustle75 of the outside world is not heard on the placid76 stretches of these quiet undulations. Here the weary spirit finds repose among elemental forms which the ravages77 of civilization have left unspoiled. If we take beautiful minds and beautiful hearts into the dune country,{24} we will find only beauty in it; and if we have not the love of beauty, we walk in darkness.
Filmy veils of white mist gather in the hollows during the still, cool hours of the night, and begin to move like curling smoke wreaths with the first faint breaths of dawn. The early hours of the morning are full of strange enchantment, and dawn on the dunes brings many wonders. When the first gray tones of light appear, the night-prowlers seek seclusion78, and the stillness is broken by the crows. A single note is heard from among the boughs79 of a far-off pine, and in a few moments the air is filled with the noisy conversation of these interesting birds—mingled with the cries of the gulls81 and terns, which have come in from the lake and are searching for the refuse of the night waves. The beams of a great light burst through the trees—the leaves and the sands are touched with gold—and the awakening82 of the hills has come.
The twilights bring forth manifold beauties which the bright glare of the day has kept within their hiding-places. The rich purples that have been concealed83 among secret recesses84 creep out on the open spaces to meet the silvery light of the rising moon, and the colors of the dusk come to weave a web of phantasy over the landscape.
It is then that the movement of nocturnal life commences and the tragedies of the night begin. A fleeting85 silhouette86 of a wing intersects the moon’s disc, and a dark shadowy thing moves swiftly across the sky-line of the trees. An attentive{27} listener will hear many strange and mysterious sounds. The Dune People are coming forth to seek their food from God.
When the morning comes, if the air is still, we can find the stories on the sand. Its surface is interlaced with thousands of little tracks and trails, leading in all directions. The tracks of the toads87, and the hundreds of creeping insects on which{28} they subsist88, are all over the open places, crossed and recrossed many times by the footmarks of crows, herons, gulls, sandpipers, and other birds.
The movement of the four-footed life is mostly nocturnal. We find the imprints89 of the fox, raccoon, mink90, muskrat91, skunk92, white-footed mouse, and other quadrupeds, that have been active during the night. To the practiced eye these trails are readily distinguishable, and often traces are found of a tragedy that has been enacted93 in the darkness. Some confused marks, and a mussy-looking spot on the sand, record a brief struggle for existence, and perhaps a few mangled94 remains95, with some scattered96 feathers or bits of fur, are left to tell the tale. A weak life has gone out to support a stronger.
With the exception of the insects, the mice are the most frequent victims. Their hiding-places under tufts of grass, old stumps97 and decayed wood are ruthlessly sought out and the little families eagerly devoured98. The owls99 glide100 silently over the wastes, searching the deep shadows for the small, velvet-footed creatures whose helplessness{29} renders them easy prey101. They are subject to immutable102 law and must perish.
Much of the mysterious lure103 of the dunes is in the magnificent sweep of the great lake along the wild shores. Its restless waters are the complement104 of the indolent sands. The distant bands of deep blue and green, dappled with dancing white-caps, in the vistas through the openings, impart vivid color accents to the grays and neutral tones of the foregrounds.
No great mind has ever flowered to its fullness that was insensible to the allurements105 of a large body of water. It may be likened to a human soul. It is now tempestuous106, and now placid. Beneath its surface are unknown caverns107 and unsounded depths into which light never goes. If by chance some piercing ray should ever reach them, wondrous beauty might be revealed.
The waters of the lake are never perfectly108 still. In calms that seem absolute, a careful eye will find at least a slight undulation.
On quiet days the little waves ripple62 and lisp along the miles of wet sand, and the delicate streaks109 of oscillating foam110 creep away in a feathery and{30} uncertain line, that fades and steals around a distant curve in the shore.
After the storms the long ground-swells roll in for days, beating their rhythmic111 measures, and unfolding their snowy veils before them as they come.
The echoes of the roar of the surf among the distant dunes pervade112 them with solemn sound. An indefinable spirit of mute resistance and power{31} broods in the inert113 masses. They seem to be holding back mighty114 and remote forces that beat upon their barriers.
The color fairies play out on the bosom115 of the lake in the silver radiance of the moon and stars, and marvelous tones are spread upon it by the sun and clouds. Invisible brushes, charged with celestial116 pigments117, seem to sweep over its great expanse, mingling118 prismatic hues and changing them fitfully, in wayward fancy, as a master might delight to play with a medium that he had conquered. Fugitive119 cloud shadows move swiftly over areas of turquoise120 and amethyst121. Fleeting iridescent122 hues revel with the capricious breezes in loving companionship.
When the storm gods lash123 the lake with whistling winds, and send their sullen124 dark array through the skies, and the music of the tempest blends with song of the surges on the shore, the color tones seem to become vocal125 and to mingle80 their cadences126 with the voices of the gale127.
We may look from the higher dune tops upon panoramas of surpassing splendor128. There are piles on piles of sandy hills, accented with green{32} masses and solitary129 pines. These highways of the winds and storms, with their glittering crowns and shadowy defiles130, sweep into dim perspective. Their noble curves become smaller and smaller, until they are folded away and lost on the horizon’s hazy131 rim17.
A sinuous132 ribbon of sunlit beach winds along the line of the breakers, and meets the point of a misty133 headland far away.{33}
The blue immensity of the lake glistens134, and is flecked with foam. White plumes135 are tossing and waving along the sky-line. In the foreground little groups of sandpipers are running nimbly along the edges of the incoming waves, racing136 after them as they retreat, and lightly taking wing when they come too near. There are flocks of stately gulls, balancing themselves with set wings, high in the wind, and a few terns are skimming along the crests. The gray figures of two or three herons are stalking about, with much dignity, near some driftwood that dots the dry sand farther up the shore.
Colors rare and glorious are in the sky. The sun is riding down in a chariot of gold and purple, attended by a retinue137 of clouds in resplendent robes. The twilight26 comes, the picture fades, but the spell remains.
Intrepid138 voyagers from the Old World journeyed along these primitive139 coasts centuries ago. Their footprints were soon washed away in the surf lines, but the romance of their trails still rests upon the sands that they traversed.
In years of obscure legend, birch-bark canoes{34} were drawn140 out on the gleaming beach by red men who carried weapons of stone. They hunted and fought among the yellow hills. They saw them basking141 under summer suns, and swept by the furies of winter storms. From their tops they watched the dying glories of the afterglows in the western skies. They saw the great lake shimmer5 in still airs, and heard the pounding of remorseless waters in its sterner moods. They who carried the weapons of stone are gone, and time has hidden them in the silence of the past.
Out in the mysterious depths of the lake are pale sandy floors that no eye has ever seen. The mobile particles are shifted and eddied142 into strange shadowy forms by the inconstant and unknown currents that flow in the gloom. There are white bones and ghostly timbers there which are buried and again uncovered. There are dunes under the waters, as well as on the shores. Slimy mosses creep along their shelving sides and over their pallid143 tops into profound chasms144 beyond. Finny life moves among the subaqueous vegetation that thrives in the fertile areas, and out over the smooth wastes,{35} but this is a world concealed. Our pictures are in the air.
When winter lays its mantle40 of snow upon the country of the dunes the whitened crests loom27 in softened145 lines. The contours become spectral146 in their chaste147 robes. Along the frosty summits the intricacies of the naked trees and branches, in their winter sleep, are woven delicately against the moody148 skies, and the hills, far away, draped in their chill raiment, stand in faint relief on the gray horizon. The black companies of the crows wing across the snow-clad heights in desultory149 flight.
When the bitter blasts come out of the clouds in the north, the light snow scurries150 over the hoary151 tops into the shelters of the hollows. Out in the ice fields on the lake grinding masses heave with the angry surges that seek the shore. Crystal fragments, shattered and splintered, shine in the dim light, far out along the margins152 of the open, turbulent water. Great piles of broken ice have been flung along the beach, heaped into bewildering forms by the billows, and a few gulls{36} skirt the ragged frozen mounds153 for possible stray bits of food.
The wind and the cold have builded grim ramparts for the sunshine and the April rains to conquer.
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swirls
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engulfed
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foe
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crests
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ragged
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utilitarian
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picturesque
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enchantment
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discriminating
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rim
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materialist
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enchanted
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vistas
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wondrous
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fortresses
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illusive
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hue
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hues
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twilight
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loom
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weird
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pall
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canyons
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solitudes
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crevice
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revel
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