The California Birthday Book by Various
page 17 of 316 (05%)
page 17 of 316 (05%)
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I see thee in this Hellas of the West, Thy youngest, fairest child, upon whose crest Thy white snows gleam, and at whose dimpled feet The blue sea breaks, while on her heaving breast The flowers droop and languish for her smile, Thy grace is mirrored in her youthful form, She lifts her forehead to the battling storm, As proud, as fair as thou. * * * * * Like thee, she opens wide her snowy arms, And folds the Nations on her mother-breast. The brawny Sons of Earth have made their home Where her wide Ocean casts its ceaseless foam, Where lifts her white Sierras' orient peak The wild exultant love of all that makes The nobler life; the energy that shakes the Earth And gives new eons birth. S.A.S.H. of College of Notre Dame, San Jose, in _Hellas._ JANUARY 17. THE RETURN TO CALIFORNIA. |
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