portion of cast-off clothes;
And ours the world—the world! a heritage
won by right,
—By tacit deed to the nomad breed with the
taint of the Ishmaelite.
Some from the wastes of the sage-brush,
some from the orange land,
Some from “God’s own country,” dusty and
tattered and tanned.
Wherefore? ’Tis idle to tell you—you’d