Lost Galleon (1867)

by Bret 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.

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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.