Lo! Duty, and Love, and a true man’s Trust;
Your forehead to God though your feet in the dust;
Lo! Duty, and Love, and a sweet Babe’s Smiles,
And these, O friend, are the Fortunate Isles.
—Copyright by Harr Wagner Co., San Francisco, and used by kind permission of author and publisher.
YOSEMITE
By Joaquin Miller
Sound! sound! sound!
O colossal walls and crown’d