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POINT LOMA SONNETS: 11. VIZCAINO, by                    
First Line: Cabrillo's visit to our loma hill
Last Line: The feet of lordly white men here again!
Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Vizcaino, Sebastian (1550-1616)


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 Golden Hind 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!





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