2
Letter"
Further Language from Truthful James
The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin
On a Cone of the Big Trees
A Sanitary Message
The Copperhead
On a Pen of Thomas Starr King
Lone Mountain
California's Greeting to Seward
The Two Ships
The Goddess
Address
The Lost Galleon
The Second Review of the Grand Army
II.
Before the Curtain
The Stage-Driver's Story
Aspiring Miss de Laine
California Madrigal
St. Thomas
Ballad of Mr. Cooke
Legends of the Rhine
Mrs. Judge Jenkins: Sequel to Maud Muller
Avitor
A White Pine Ballad
Little Red Riding-Hood
The Ritualist
A Moral Vindicator
Songs without Sense
Part I.
East and West Poems.
A Greyport Legend.
(1797.)
They ran through the streets of the seaport town;
They peered from the decks of the ships that lay:
The cold sea-fog that came whitening down
Was never as cold or white as they.
"Ho, Starbuck and Pinckney and Tenterden!
Run for your shallops, gather your men,
Scatter your boats on the lower bay."
Good cause for fear! In the thick midday
The hulk that lay by the rotting pier,
Filled with the children in happy play,
Parted its moorings, and drifted clear,--
Drifted clear beyond the reach or call,--
Thirteen children they were in all,--
All adrift in the lower bay!
Said a hard-faced skipper, "God help us all!
She will not float till the turning tide!"
Said his wife, "My darling will hear my call,
Whether in sea or heaven she bide:"
And she lifted a quavering voice and high,
Wild and strange as a sea-bird's cry,
Till they shuddered and wondered at her side.
The fog drove down on each laboring crew,
Veiled each from each and the sky and shore:
There was not a sound but the breath they drew,
And the lap of water and creak of oar;
And they felt the breath of the downs, fresh blown
O'er leagues of clover and cold g