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Joaquin Miller's Poems

[in six volumes]

Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)

Volume One

[dedication]

AN INTRODUCTION

LATER LINES PREFERRED BY LONDON

LESSONS FOR MY LOVERS

LINES THAT PAPA LIKED

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XXXII

A shaft of flame, a lifted torch,
Leaps sudden from this midland sea,
As if to light the very porch
Of God's high house eternally.
It drops its ashen embers slow

And slantwise, like belated snow,
On granite columns, gods of stone
Hewn ere the gods of Baal were known.