The Savage Poem Around Me

"Ghostly, wrapped in its shroud of snow, my island stands white above the blackness of unfreezing waters. What have I done? Although I had lived these days by anticipation, no sooner had the sails of the departing yacht vanished below the water horizon...then I realized at once, and with a strange sinking of the heart...the savage poem around me."

Alfred Lambourne (artist) from his book, Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead
Talking about The Great Salt Lake.  Painting Black, Rock, Great Salt Lake c. 1880