Cabrillo's visit to our Loma hill Became a legend passed along from sires To sons and daughters; told around old fires Built on these beaches when the wind was still At evening and the folk had had their fill Of fish and roasted seeds; and the loud choirs Of larks and mockingbirds were hushed. Desires For old tales woke again . . . tales told until From Acapulco Vizcaino brought His soldiers, sailors, priests -- four hundred men Seeking as in the @3Golden Hind@1 bold Drake had sought The straits of fabled Anian. And then There was a stir of wonder with wild terror fraught: The feet of lordly white men here again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STIRRUP-CUP by JOHN MILTON HAY WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION by WALT WHITMAN ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 7. TO REVEREND BENJAMIN, LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER by MARK AKENSIDE UNREASONABLE REASON by JOSEPH BEAUMONT |