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Natural Bridge, Virginia
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CHOTE
"BRIDGE OF YEARS"
Gigantic arch of everlasting stone,
Cut by the hand of God while ancient time
Looked down in wonder on a new-made world.
How many centuries through thy portals vast
Since that far hour have joined eternity
What was the might of Caesar, hedged with
steel
And robed in royal purple, unto thine?
He came, he saw, he conquered and-he passed.
Beneath a wreck of years imperial Rome
Lies buried. And behold, where sleeps the Nile,
How Egypt mourns her crumbling pyramids.
In antique days, while shepherds watched at
night,
In Syrian skies was lit the Star of Life
Yet even then thy towering bulk was old
And stained with passage of the centuries.
Man, the proud pygmy, master of an hour,
Vain shadow on the shifting sands of time,
In supercilious impotence surveys
Thy majesty eternal. As he stares
The phantom of dead ages rises up
And strikes his soul to silence. Structure vast,
Lone, immemorial, massive monument,
Lifted in triumph to the march of years,
At thy fixed base, as at the feet of God,
We kneel in reverence and humility.
Carter W. Wormeley
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NATURAL BRIDGE-One of the Seven Natural Won-
ders of the World. There is no other structure like it.
The Lee Highway, U.S. No. 11 passes over Natural
Bridge. It is higher by 55 feet than Niagara Falls. The
mean height of the bridge from the stream below to its
upper surface is 215 feet, it has a span of 90 feet between
the walls, width averages 100 feet and the arch is 40
feet thick,
Hotel and cottage accommodations. Open all year.
titumination every night.
NATURAL BRIDGE OF VIRGINIA, INC.
"TICHNOR QUALITY VIEWS" REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. MADE ONLY BY TICHNOR BROS., INC., BOSTON, MASS.
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