- 1. Joaquin Miller To The Money Getter
Yes! I am a dreamer.
While you seek gold in the earth, why, I
See gold in the steeps of the starry sky;
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- 2. Joaquin Miller's Home On The Hights
Rugged! Rugged as Parnassus!
Rude, as all roads I have trod
Yet are steeps and stone-strewn passes
Smooth o'erhead, and nearest God.
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- 3. The Sierra Nevadas
Serene and satisfied! Supreme! As lone
As God, they loom like God's archangels churl'd;
They look as cold as kings upon a throne;
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- 4. Yosemite
Sound! sound! sound!
O colossal walls and crown'd
In one eternal thunder!
Sound! sound! sound!
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- 5. To Russia
Who tamed your lawless Tartar blood?
What David bearded in her den
The Russian bear in ages when
You strode your black, unbridled stud,
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- 6. The Defence Of The Alamo
Santa Ana came storming, as a storm might come;
There was rumble of cannon; there was rattle of blade;
There was cavalry, infantry, bugle and drum-
Full seven thousand in pomp and parade.
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- 7. Juanita
You will come, my bird, Bonita?
Come! For I by steep and stone
Have built such nest for you, Juanita,
As not eagle bird hath known.
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- 8. Columbus
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the Gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores,
Before him only shoreless seas.
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