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And a strange music went with him, / Loud and yet strangely far; / The wild pipes of the western land, / Too keen for the ear to understand, / Sang high and deathly on each hand / When the dead man went to war. / -- Chesterton.
The first snows of winter lay white on the Gateway. All around towered the tall, frosted peaks of the mountain barrier, and a bitter wind gusted strongly through the pass. Within a month deep snow and avalanches would make the Gateway almost impassable.