JULY 24.

THE SENTINEL TREE.
(CYPRESS POINT, CALIFORNIA.)

A giant sentinel, alone it stands

On rocky headland where the breakers roar,

Parted from piny woods and pebbled shore.

Holding out branches as imploring hands.

Poor lonely tree, where never bird doth make

Its nest, or sing at morn and eve to thee,

Nor in whose shadow wild rose calleth bee

To come on gauzy wing for love's sweet sake.