Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Western States: Sacramento, the River, Cal. | | Rio Sacramento | | Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| | | SACRAMENTO! Sacramento, | |
| Down the rough Nevada foaming, | |
| Fain my heart would join thy water | |
| In its glad, impetuous roaming, | |
| For thy valley’s fairest daughter | 5 |
| Watches oft to see thee coming! | |
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| Sacramento! Sacramento! | |
| From the shining threads that wove thee,— | |
| From the mountain woods that darken | |
| All the mountain heaven above thee, | 10 |
| Teach her ear thy song to hearken, | |
| And, for what it says, to love thee! | |
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| Sacramento! Sacramento! | |
| Lead me downward to the glory | |
| Of thy green and flowery meadows; | 15 |
| I will leave the deserts hoary, | |
| For thy grove of quiet shadows | |
| And my love’s impassioned story. | |
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| Sacramento! Sacramento! | |
| Every dancing rainbow broken | 20 |
| When thy falling waves are shattered, | |
| Is a glad and beckoning token | |
| Of the hopes so warmly scattered | |
| And the vows that we have spoken! | |
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| Sacramento! Sacramento! | 25 |
| She, beside thee, waits my coming; | |
| Teach my step thy bounding fleetness, | |
| Towards the bower of beauty roaming, | |
| Where she stands, in maiden sweetness, | |
| Gazing idly on thy foaming! | 30 | | | |
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