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The Lost Galleon and Other Tales (1867)
by Bret Harte
2488357The Lost Galleon and Other Tales1867Bret Harte

THE

Lost Galleon

AND

OTHER TALES.

BY

FR. BRET HARTE.

SAN FRANCISCO:

TOWNE & BACON, PRINTERS.

1867.

"The earth hath bubbles as the water hath, and these are of them."

Macbeth.

BEFORE THE CURTAIN.


Behind the footlights hangs the rusty baize;
A trifle shabby in the upturned blaze
Of flaring gas, and curious eyes that gaze.

The stage, methinks, perhaps is none too wide;
And hardly fit for royal Richard's stride,
Or Falstaff's bulk, or Denmark's youthful pride.

Ah well! no passion walks its humble boards—
O'er it no king nor valiant Hector lords—
The simplest skill is all its space affords—

The song and jest, the dance and trilling play—
The local hit at follies of the day—
The trick to pass an idle hour away—

For these, no trumpets that announce the Moor—
No blast that makes the hero's welcome sure—
A single fiddle in the overture!

CONTENTS.




TALES AND LEGENDS—
PAGE.
The Lost Galleon 13
John Burns of Gettysburg 23
Tale of a Pony 29
Padre Junipero's Miracle 35
NATIONAL AND SANITARY—
The Long, Long Night 43
The Reveille 45
Our Privilege 47
Second Review of the Grand Army 49
On a Pen of Thomas Starr King 53
The Rabbit of Malvern Hills 55
Of One who Fell in Battle 59
The Goddess 61
How are You, Sanitary? 65
Relieving Guard—March 4th, 1864 67
A Sanitary Message 69
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Pliocene Skull 75
An Arctic Vision 79
The Aged Stranger 83
Hero of Sugar Pine 85
Legends of the Rhine 87
The Two Ships 91
The Lost Tails of Miletus 93
A Geological Madrigal 95
Ballads of San Francisco—
The Emeu 97
The Willows 101
North Beach 107
NOTES 109

Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1867, by

Fr. Bret Harte,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of California.

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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