Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Preview
Transcription
Endless gardens endless floodsSilvery fiords & balmy airMake endless beauty every where--New land's, new seas, new heavens, new earth--Day by Day I saw their birth.Where all is beauty, all is loveThrough earth below to heaven aboveEnchanted, wondering, throbbing, glowingAll the show on one flood flowingI scarce can make my memory bringFrom out the whole one separate thingUnless perhaps,--unless it beThe broad effulgent Behring Sea--The brightest gem of all the bright NorthReflecting every beauty right forth-Its miles & leagues of purple dulsesStill thrill & tingle all my pulses,Its gracious waves & breezes mildStill rock and fan me like a childIts flower--embroidered shores & baysIts wonderous skies, its nightless daysIts teeming life, its bloom--clad islandsIts far blue wavering lines of sky landsAll rise before me now untroubledTheir blessings-beauties more than doubledTherefore my proudest song must be07196
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1899-10-08T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir10_1025-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 1025
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. 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 6
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
