When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!"
was among his earliest writings; and The Bells of San Blas was his last poem, having been written March 15, 1882, nine days only before he died:—
"What say the Bells of San Blas
To the ships that southward pass
From the harbor of Mazatlan?"
And this last stanza must contain the last words that came from his pen:—
"O Bells of San Blas, in vain
Ye call back the Fast again!
The Past is deaf to your prayer: