Augustin S. Macdonald, comp.
A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By John S. McGroarty<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019TWIXT the seas and the deserts,
\u2019Twixt the wastes and the waves,
Between the sands of buried lands
And the ocean\u2019s coral caves,
It lies not East nor West,
But like a scroll unfurled,
Where the hand of God hath hung it,
Down the middle of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It lies where God hath spread it,
In the gladness of his eyes,
Like a flame of jeweled tapestry
Beneath His shining skies,
With the green of woven meadows,
And the hills in golden chains,
The light of leaping rivers,
And the flash of poppied plains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Days rise that gleam in glory,
Days die with sunset\u2019s breeze,
While from Cathay that was of old
Sail countless argosies;
Morns break again in splendor
O\u2019er the giant, new-born West,
But of all the lands God fashioned,
\u2019Tis this land is the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sun and dews that kiss it,
Balmy winds that blow,
The stars in clustered diadems
Upon its peaks of snow;
The mighty mountains o\u2019er it,
Below, the white seas swirled\u2014
Just California stretching down
The middle of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Augustin S. Macdonald, comp. A Collection of Verse by California Poets. 1914. Camp CajonCamp Cajon Dedication By John S. McGroarty \u2019TWIXT the seas and the deserts,\u2019Twixt the wastes and the waves,Between the sands of buried landsAnd the ocean\u2019s coral caves,It lies not East nor West, But like a scroll unfurled,Where the hand of God hath … Continue reading “Just California”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cajon-collection","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}