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MOUNT FUJI:

MOUNT FUJI, OF JAPAN:
WAS AN OLD EXTINCT VOLCANO, STANDING IN PERFECT, SYMETRICAL PROPORTION, MASSIVELY, BEAUTIFULLY MIGHTY AND MAGICALLY GRAND:
  WHEN YOU SAW THE ENORMOUS MONT FUJI FOR THE FIRST TIME:
  YOU COULDNT, EVEN LOOK AWAY IF YOU WERE TRYING:
ITS AS IF YOU WERE MOTIONLESS, IN THE GREAT BEAUTY THAT WAS ON HAND:
HOW MAGNIFICENT THIS GREAT MOUNTAIN WAS, MADE COMPLETELY FROM THE BLACK, VOLCANIC SAND:
  REALLY IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING ON THIS EARTH THAT YOU CAN EVER SEE:
  SO MAGNIFICENT, ENORMOUS, STRETCHING TOWARDS THE SKY, SO BEAUTIFUL AND FREE:
THE TRUE BEAUTY BECAME CLEAR:
WHEN THE MOUNTAIN WAS SNOW CAPPED, STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS WITH NOT A SINGLE FEAR:
  FOR MILES, AND MILES AROUND:
  THE GREAT MOUNT FUJI, MAGESTIC BEAUTY COULD BE FOUND:
AS YOU LOOKED UP TO THE MOUNTAIN OF GREAT:
YOU ALWAYS WERE IN AN AWESTRUCK FATE:
  I CLIMBED MOUNT FUJI, 10- NOVEMBER, 1979:
  IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING JOURNEYS I HAVE EVER COME TO FIND:
THE BLACK VOLCANO ASH, WAS SOFT, AND AS A BEACH SAND, DIFFICULT TO CLIMB:
BUT WE MADE IT TO THE TOP, ME AND MCCAULEY, AND LEWIS IN DUE TIME:
  MOUNT FUJI HAS STOOD THROUGH TIME, WITH MAGNIFICENT BEAUTY SO STRONG AND GRAND:
  IM PROUD, I WAS ABLE TO CLIMB MOUNT FUJI ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP WITH MY FEET AND HAND:

BY: JOHN D. JUNGERS
25 APRIL 2015:


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