of life, and here the groupings of death;
Here, do you know this? this is cicerone himself,
With finger
rais'd he points to the prodigal pictures.
1880 1881
THE PRAIRIE STATES
A never garden of creation, no primal solitude,
Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and
farms,
With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,
By all the world contributed — freedom's and
law's and
thrift's society,
The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time's
accumulations,
To justify the
past.
1880 1881