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Joaquin Miller's Poems

[in six volumes]

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They came and they stood by the brink of the tide,
They hung their shields on the boughs of the trees,

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They lean'd their lances against the side,
Unloosed their sandals, and busy as bees
Ungather'd their robes in the rustle of leaves
That wound them as close as the wine-vine weaves.