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Joaquin Miller's Poems

[in six volumes]

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To live not asking, just to live;
To live not begging, just to be;
To breathe God's presence in the dusk
That drives out loud, assertive light—
To never ask, but ever give;
To love my noiseless mother, Night;

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Her vast hair moist with smell of musk,
Her breath sweet with eternity.
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