And its top in God's own sky?

FRED EMERSON BROOKS,
in Old Abe and Other Poems.

JANUARY 24.

A MENDOCINO MEMORY.

I climbed the canyon to a river-head,

And looking backward saw a splendor spread.

Miles beyond miles, of every kingly hue

And trembling tint the looms of Arras knew—

A flowery pomp as of the dying day,