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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509947" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bound For California</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With buoyant heart he left his home for that bright wond’rous land<br>Where gold ore gleams in countless mines, and gold dust strews the sand;<br>And youth’s dear ties were riven all, for as wild, as vain, a dream<br>As the meteor false that leads astray the traveller with its gleam. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vainly his father frowned dissent, his mother, tearful, prayed,<br>Vainly his sisters, with fond words, his purpose would have stayed;<br>He heard them all with heedless ear, with dauntless heart and bold—<br>Whisp’ring to soothe each yearning fear “I go to win you gold.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Restless he paced the deck until he saw the sails unfurled<br>Of the ship which was to bear him to that new and distant world;<br>And when his comrades stood with him and watched the lessening land,<br>His clear laugh rose the loudest ’mid that gay gold-seekers’ band. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In changing moods of grief and mirth the ocean way was passed,<br>And all were weary, when the cry of “Land” was heard at last.<br>Like birds escaped from thraldom long, the happy, smiling crowd<br>Thronged to the deck with eager looks, rejoicing long and loud. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet one was missing ’mid that band who foremost should have been,<br>Whose hopeful heart had cheered them oft when winds blew fierce and keen;<br>And when dead calms or drizzling rains made the ocean way seem long<br>Had wiled the time with lively tale, with jest, or stirring song. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But a sudden change had come o’er him, his ringing voice was hushed,<br>The smooth young cheek grew pallid, or, at times, was deeply flushed;<br>And now he lay in his lonely cot, a prey to sickness drear,<br>His frame all filled with racking pain—his heart with doubt and fear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Oh, raise me up,” he faintly breathed, “that I one glance may win<br>Of that long looked for promised land I ne’er may enter in;<br>Till I recall the tender words of friends, well loved of old—<br>The friends I left without a pang, in idle search for gold.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Exile’s prayer was soon obeyed, and round his fevered brow<br>The cool land breeze is playing, but death’s damps are on it now!<br>His spirit passed from earth away as Sol’s last dying beams<br>Lit up the golden Eldorado of all his boyish dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rosanna+Eleanor+Leprohon">Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon</a><div class=q>
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Where gold ore gleams in countless mines, and gold dust strews the sand;
And youth’s dear ties were riven all, for as wild, as vain, a dream
As the meteor false that leads astr..."></div>
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