And so in mountain solitudes--o'ertaken
As by some spell divine--
Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken
From out the gusty pine.
Lost is that camp, and wasted all its fire:
And he who wrought that spell?--
Ah, towering pine and stately Kentish spire,
Ye have one tale to tell!
Lost is that camp! but let its fragrant story
Blend with the breath that thrills
With hop-vines' incense all the pensive glory
That fills the Kentish hills.
And on that grave where English oak and holly
And laurel wreaths intwine,
Deem it not all a too presumptuous folly,--
This spray of Western pine!
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THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES OF THIS BOOK
PRINTED BY EDWIN GRABHORN FOR JOHN HOWELL.
TITLE PAGE AND DECORATIONS BY JOSEPH SINEL.
THIS IS COPY NO. [Handwritten: 37]
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Dickens in Camp, by Bret Harte
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