. At early candle light and other poems. nightly walk vidette To the green pools wherein they glass Their glory in I^as Perdidas— Wild Canon of I^as Animas! O Canon of Las Animas! Thro shambles of the slaughtered soulsThy river of the lost, alas! Scuds swiftly oer skuU-paven shoals,Where tethered shades eternally Scroll all thy sagging, sunless clififsWith Gods name, whom they can not see In Hades hopeless hieroglyphs,Looking, all dumb and the blue face of the drowned, Gyved hand and foot with graveyard grass By Rio de las Perdidas— Wild Canon of Las Animas! O Caiion of Las

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. At early candle light and other poems. nightly walk vidette To the green pools wherein they glass Their glory in I^as Perdidas— Wild Canon of I^as Animas! O Canon of Las Animas! Thro shambles of the slaughtered soulsThy river of the lost, alas! Scuds swiftly oer skuU-paven shoals,Where tethered shades eternally Scroll all thy sagging, sunless clififsWith Gods name, whom they can not see In Hades hopeless hieroglyphs,Looking, all dumb and the blue face of the drowned, Gyved hand and foot with graveyard grass By Rio de las Perdidas— Wild Canon of Las Animas! O Caiion of Las Animas! Now is this lying legend peeledFrom thy great fame forever, as A ripe fig-skin, and thou revealedSublimest Natures holiest shrine, Where spirits, free from sinful dross,Look up, to see above them shine The • Mountain of the Holy Cross, 70 THE RIVER or LOST SOULS Linteled with heaven and silver-silled,Thy templed dome forever filled With songs whose cadences surpassThe strong voice of Las PerdidasWild Canon of Las Animas!. THE WHISTLING BOY

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