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HISTORY OF OREGON LITERATURE
They'll point thee out a spot where oft,
In pensive mien and thoughtful mood,
Full many a time a maiden stood,
When ships were sending lights aloft.
In pensive mien and thoughtful mood,
Full many a time a maiden stood,
When ships were sending lights aloft.
My spirit in that place you'll find;
The tinted shells upon the shore
All knew of me in days of yore;
The rocks and trees were never blind.
The tinted shells upon the shore
All knew of me in days of yore;
The rocks and trees were never blind.
Fit place for love's young dream is this;
A pleasing music fills the air;
The sailing moon cast anchor there;
The streaming stars all weep for bliss.
A pleasing music fills the air;
The sailing moon cast anchor there;
The streaming stars all weep for bliss.
An ancient pair, the sea and strand;
He, hoary-headed, speaketh sweet,
And checks for her his battling feet,
And smoothes her wrinkles with his hand.
He, hoary-headed, speaketh sweet,
And checks for her his battling feet,
And smoothes her wrinkles with his hand.
Seek then, my love, but once that sea,
And out upon the cliff's dark brow
Regret, one hour, the broken vow,
And consecrate that hour to me.
MINNIE M. MILLER.
And out upon the cliff's dark brow
Regret, one hour, the broken vow,
And consecrate that hour to me.
MINNIE M. MILLER.
SALIM, OREGON.
My Boys.
By Minnie M. Miller
From the New Northwest, March 1, 1872
DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER
The Millers had one daughter, Maud, born on Sixes River, north of Port Orford, in 1864. Mrs. Belle W. Cooke of Salem kept her for a while after the divorce. Byronically, Miller later took her from her mother and placed her in a convent school. She became an actress, and died in 1901. There is a fuller note on her in the chapter "A Century of Literary Gossip." The following poem was written of the two younger children —boys, George B. and Harry, born in Canyon City — whom Mrs. Miller had taken to the home of her mother after the divorce.
