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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By Lucius HarwoodFoote

638 El Vaquero

TINGED with the blood of Aztec lands,

Sphinx-like, the tawny herdsman stands,

A coiled reata in his hands.

Devoid of hope, devoid of fear,

Half brigand and half cavalier,—

This helot, with imperial grace,

Wears ever on his tawny face

A sad, defiant look of pain.

Left by the fierce iconoclast

A living fragment of the past,

Greek of the Greeks he must remain.