Poetry

OLIVE.

Joaquin Miller


  • Dove-borne symbol, olive bough;
  • Dove-hued sign from God to men,
  • As if still the dove and thou
  • Kept companionship as then.

  • Dove-hued, holy branch of peace,
  • Antique, all-enduring tree;
  • Deluge and the floods surcease
  • Deluge and Gethsemane.