Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[A. H., Fay, Emma and Frank Sellers]
Preview
Transcription
4And round the cooling lily pond In clouds of rhododendron That vie With sunset sky In red & purple glory Another version of Arabran story. Fairy groves & halls & cool verandas A bloom with flowers & [fern?] & s[illegible] Which to no pen of mine Will come to rhyme, or time While here I weary swoon & swelter Every day a worser melter Eking out a life precarious On scraps of have-beens odd & various Icebergs, forests, streams, auroras, glacier meadows, mountain floras All in fading memory mingled In dullest prose or doggerel jingled. My useless clothes are falling fast, Before this wilting scorching blast My broiling flesh is gone or going Like snow in sunshine melting, flowing
Location
New York
Date Original
1893 Jun 24
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir07_1162-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 1162
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library . Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
