For, while my pencil’s trailing and I’ve half forgot my theme,

I, too, am seeing visions, as my grandsire used to dream.

WHEN LITTLE SISTER CAME[14]

By Joaquin Miller

We dwelt in the woods of the Tippe-canoe,

In a lone lost cabin, with never a view

Of the full day’s sun for a whole year through.

With strange half hints through the russet corn

We children were hurried one night. Next morn