The Poet
Joaquin Miller
es, I am a dreamer. Yet while you dream, - Then 1 am awake. When a child, back through
- The gates of the past I peer'd, and I knew
- The land I had lived in. I saw a broad stream,
- Saw rainbows that compass'd a world in their reach;
- I saw my beloved go down on the beach;
- Saw her lean to this earth, saw her looking for me
- As shipmen look for loved ship at sea
- While you seek gold in the earth, why, I
- See gold in the steeps of the starry sky;
- And which do you think has the fairer view
- Of God in heaven the dreamer or you?