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East and West

Poems.

by

Bret Harte.

Contents.

I.

• A Greyport Legend
• A Newport Romance
• The Hawk's Nest
• In the Mission Garden
• The Old Major Explains
• "Seventy-Nine"
• Truthful James's Answer to "Her Letter"
• Further Language from Truthful James
• The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin
• On a Cone of the Big Trees
• A Sanitary Message
• The Copperhead
• On a Pen of Thomas Starr King
• Lone Mountain
• California's Greeting to Seward
• The Two Ships
• The Goddess
• Address
• The Lost Galleon
• The Second Review of the Grand Army

II.

• Before the Curtain
• The Stage-Driver's Story
• Aspiring Miss de Laine
• California Madrigal
• St. Thomas
• Ballad of Mr. Cooke
• Legends of the Rhine
• Mrs. Judge Jenkins: Sequel to Maud Muller
• Avitor
• A White Pine Ballad
• Little Red Riding-Hood
• The Ritualist
• A Moral Vindicator
• Songs without Sense

Part I.

A Greyport Legend.

(1797.)

They ran through the streets of the seaport town;
They peered from the decks of the ships that lay:
The cold sea-fog that came whitening down
Was never as cold or white as they.
 "Ho, Starbuck and Pinckney and Tenterden!
  Run for your shallops, gather your men,
  Scatter your boats on the lower bay."

Good cause for fear! In the thick midday
The hulk that lay by the rotting pier,
Filled with the children in happy play,
Parted its moorings, and drifted clear,--
  Drifted clear beyond the reach or call,--
  Thirteen children they were in all,--
    All adrift in the lower bay!

Said a hard-faced skipper, "God help us all!