The Angelus
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The Angelus
(HEARD AT THE MISSION DOLORES, 1868)
Bells of the Past, whose long-forgotten music
Still fills the wide expanse,
Tingeing the sober twilight of the Present
With color of romance!
I hear your call, and see the sun descending
On rock and wave and sand,
As down the coast the Mission voices, blending,
Girdle the heathen land.
Within the circle of your incantation
No blight nor mildew falls;
Nor fierce unrest, nor lust, nor low ambition
Passes those airy walls.
Borne on the swell of your long waves receding,
I touch the farther Past;
I see the dying glow of Spanish glory,
The sunset dream and last!
Before me rise the dome-shaped Mission towers,
The white Presidio;
The swart commander in his leathern jerkin,
The priest in stole of snow.
Once more I see Portala's cross uplifting
Above the setting sun;
And past the headland, northward, slowly drifting,
The freighted galleon.
O solemn bells! whose consecrated masses
Recall the faith of old;
O tinkling bells! that lulled with twilight music
The spiritual fold!
Your voices break and falter in the darkness,--
Break, falter, and are still;
And veiled and mystic, like the Host descending,
The sun sinks from the hill!
About Bret Harte
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Summary
Biographical Sketch
I: National
John Burns of Gettysburg
"How are you, Sanitary?"
Battle Bunny
The Reveille
Our Privilege
Relieving Ground
On a pen of Thomas Starr King
The Goddess
A Second Review of the Grand Army
The Copperhead
A Sanitary Message
The Old Major Explains
California's Greeting to Seward
The Aged Stranger
The Idyl of Battle Hollow
Caldwell of Springfield
Poem
Miss Blanche Says
An Arctic Vision
St. Thomas
Off Scarborough
Cadet Grey
II: Spanish Idyls and Legends
The Miracle of Padre Junipero
The Wonderful Spring of San Joaquin
The Angelus
Concepcion de Arguello
"For the King"
Ramon
Don Diego of The South
At the Hacienda
Friar Pedro's Bride
In the Mission Garden
The Lost Galleon
III: In Dialect
"Jim"
Chiquita
Dow's Flat
In the Tunnel
"Cicely"
Penelope
Plain Language from Truthful James
The Society Upon the Stanislaus
Luke
"The Babes in the Woods"
The Latest Chinese Outrage
Truthful James to the Editor
An Idyl of the Road
Thompson of Angels
The Hawk's Nest
Her Letter
His Answer to "Her Letter"
"The Return of Belisarius"
Further Language From Truthful James
After the Accident
The Ghost that Jim Saw
"Seventy-Nine"
The Stage-driver's Story
A Question of Privilege
The Thought-reader of Angels
The Spelling Bee at Angel's
Artemis in Sierra
Jack of the Tules
IV: Miscellaneous
A Greyport Legend
A Newport Romance
San Francisco
The Mountain Heart's-Ease
Grizzly
Madrono
Coyote
To a Sea-Bird
What the Chimney Sang
Dickens in Camp
"Twenty Years"
Fate
Grandmother Tenterden
Guild's Signal
Aspiring Miss De Laine
A Legend of Cologne
The Tale of a Pony
On a Cone of the Big Trees
Lone Mountain
Alnaschar
The Two Ships
Address
Dolly Varden
Telemachus versus Mentor
What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding Hood
Half an Hour Before Supper
What the Bullet Sang
The Old Camp-Fire
The Station-Master of Lone Prairie
The Mission Bells of Monterey
"Crotalus"
On William Francis Bartlett
The Birds of Cirencester
Lines To A Portrait, By A Superior Person
Her Last Letter
V: Parodies
Before the Curtain
To the Pliocene Skull
The Ballad of Mr. Cooke
The Ballad of the Emeu
Mrs. Judge Jenkins
A Geological Madrigal
Avitor
The Willows
North Beach
The Lost Tails of Miletus
The Ritualist
A Moral Vindicator
California Madrigal
What the Engines Said
The Legends of the Rhine
VI: Songs Without Sense
For the Parlour and Piano
VII: Little Posterity
Master Johnny's Next-Door Neighbor
Miss Edith's Modest Request
Miss Edith Makes It Pleasant For Brother Jack
Miss Edith Makes Another Friend
What Miss Edith Saw From Her Window
On the Landing
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