Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Preview
Transcription
The glories of great Behring Sea--Ah me! poor doubting doleful sinnerI feared its waves might spoil my dinnerAnd had not H. & Muir insistedIn faithless wreck I might have missed itI thought to stop at old Dutch HarborBoarding with an old Dutch barberAnd, while the ship was gone go huntingThe gold-crowned sparrow & snowflake buntingAnd thus I might have lost the wholeMy head, the sea, perhaps my soulWhere dizzy cloud & fogs roll downOn Oonalaska icy crownMaking the famous wolves howl longerAs they picked my bones to make them strongerAs now I view it o'er againIt seem an awful might—have—beenThis dreadful fate Thank Heaven is passedFor Muir most kindly held me fastAnd made me leave that old Dutch HarborGive up the sparrows, give up the barberAnd stay aboard the ship & sailTo Behring Sea with with [sic] blissful gale--If on that ship there was one angleWho brought for me a true evangel07196
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1899-10-08T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir10_1027-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 1027
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 7
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
