Excerpt from Poems: And Poems of California and the West Save the soul of the island, sleeping, And the soul of God in the air. The beach was long and lonely And my soul was lonely too: N 0 being gave me greeting, But above the seaebirds flew. Full well I knew the sea of Life, F ull long I'd searched its deeps, But now, behold, oncoming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.