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Joaquin Miller's Poems

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Miller, Joaquin (1837-1913)

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XXII

“Hear me! All Europe, rind to core,
Is rotting, tumbling, base to top.
Withhold the gold and silver prop
Our dauntless fathers hewed of yore
From yonder seamed Sierras' core,
And such a toppling you may hear
As never fell on mortal ear.
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