Gone to join the shadows with Altgeld the Eagle,
Where the kings and the slaves and the troubadours rest.
Written at the Guanella Ranch, Empire, Colorado, August, 1919.
RAMESES II
Would that the brave Rameses, King of Time
Were throned in your souls, to raise for you
Vast immemorial dreams dark Egypt knew,
Filling these barren days with Mystery,
With Life and Death, and Immortality,
The Devouring Ages, the all-consuming Sun: