Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Western States: San Francisco, Cal. | | Lone Mountain | | Bret Harte (1836–1902) |
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THIS is that hill of awe | |
| That Persian Sindbad saw,— | |
| The mount magnetic; | |
| And on its seaward face, | |
| Scattered along its base, | 5 |
| The wrecks prophetic. | |
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| Here come the argosies | |
| Blown by each idle breeze, | |
| To and fro shifting; | |
| Yet to the hill of Fate | 10 |
| All drawing, soon or late,— | |
| Day by day drifting;— | |
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| Drifting forever here | |
| Barks that for many a year | |
| Braved wind and weather; | 15 |
| Shallops but yesterday | |
| Launched on yon shining bay,— | |
| Drawn all together. | |
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| This is the end of all: | |
| Sun thyself by the wall, | 20 |
| O poorer Hindbad! | |
| Envy not Sindbad’s fame: | |
| Here come alike the same, | |
| Hindbad and Sindbad. | | | | |
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