Crossword-Solution: ALPEN 5 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

MACMARLAND IN Schnee der Alpen—so it runs To those divine accords—and here We dwell in Alpine snows and suns, A motley crew, for half the year: A motley crew, we dwell to taste— A shivering band in hope and fear— That sun upon the snowy waste, That Alpine ether cold and clear.

The task of the troopers as the cordon drew south was more and more difficult, and there were places traversed upon the Natal border where an alpen stock would have been a more useful adjunct than a horse.

Cautiously she dragged herself out along the shadow of the cliff, listening, peering among the clefts now all abloom with alpen rosen; and saw nothing--no way forward; no steep path, hewn by man or by nature, along the face of that stupendous battlement of rock.

Against the rocks lay patches of snow, grimy with dirt and pebbles; from a cleft the long greenish white threads of “Peter’s beard” waved at them; in a hollow bloomed a thicket of pink Alpen-rosen.

The sun-lit heights of steep Parnassus Reach past the clouds, and we below must stay; Not that our alpen-stocks are weak, or that Our breath comes short, but that, forsooth, we wear The Petticoat.