A CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS.
Joaquin Miller
ehold where Beauty walks with Peace! - Behold where Plenty pours her horn
- Of fruits, of flowers, fat increase,
- As generous as light of morn.
- Green Shasta, San Diego, seas
- Of bloom and green between them rolled.
- Great herds in grasses to their knees,
- And green earth garmented in gold.
- White peaks that prop the sapphire blue
- Look down on Edens, such as when
- That fair, first spot perfection knew
- And God walked perfect earth with men.
- I say God's kingdom is at hand
- Right here, if we but lift our eyes;
- I say there lies no line or land
- Between this land and Paradise.