| Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. | | | | The Old Brooch | | By Charles F. Lummis |
| | Written first in Spanish and then Englished
“ENSUEÑO,” osito osado, | |
| Dime, ¿que vayas pensando, | |
| Negrito bendito y feliz, | |
| Alli donde estás reposando, | |
| Tu con la Emperatriz? | 5 |
| Dime, (que ya me deliro)— | |
| ¿Que está tu Almohada soñando? | |
| ¿A tí una lágrima dando— | |
| Y al Oso Mayor un suspiro? | |
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| Little jet bear on a bed of snow, | 10 |
| What are you thinking? As I would think | |
| If I were trembling on that dear brink? | |
| Or are you dizzy as I would be there? | |
| What do you wonder? What do you know? | |
| Are you too happy to know or wonder— | 15 |
| Her throat above you, her bosom under? | |
| Tell, me, what is your Pillow dreaming? | |
| Catch you ever a tear to drink? | |
| Ever a sigh or a flutter, seeming | |
| Maybe a Memory stirred for me there? | 20 | | | |
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