Songs of the Mexican Seas

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BY JOAQUIN MILLER AUTHOR OF “SONGS OF THE SIERRAS,” “SONGS OF ITALY,” ETC.
BOSTON ROBERTS BROTHERS 1887
Copyright, 1887, By Roberts Brothers.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
TO ABBIE.
From the heart of the Sierra, where I once more hear the awful heart-throbs of Nature, I now intrust the first reception of these lessons entirely to my own country. And may I not ask in return, now at the last, when the shadows begin to grow long, something of that consideration which, thus far, has been accorded almost entirely by strangers?
Joaquin Miller.
Mount Shasta, California, A.D. 1887.
SONGS OF THE MEXICAN SEAS.
In that far land, farther than Yucatan, Hondurian height, or Mahogany steep, Where the great sea, hollowed by the hand of man Hears deep come calling across to deep; Where the great seas follow in the grooves of men Down under the bastions of Darien:
In that land so far that you wonder whether If God would know it should you fall down dead; In that land so far through the wilds and weather That the lost sun sinks like a warrior sped,— Where the sea and the sky seem closing together, Seem closing together as a book that is read: