- 1. Joaquin Miller's Home On The Hights
Rugged! Rugged as Parnassus!
Rude, as all roads I have trod
Yet are steeps and stone-strewn passes
Smooth o'erhead, and nearest God.
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- 2. Yosemite
Sound! sound! sound!
O colossal walls and crown'd
In one eternal thunder!
Sound! sound! sound!
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- 3. Westward Ho!
What strength! what strife! what rude unrest!
What shocks! what half-shaped armies met!
A mighty nation moving west,
With all its steely sinews set
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- 4. The Defence Of The Alamo
Santa Ana came storming, as a storm might come;
There was rumble of cannon; there was rattle of blade;
There was cavalry, infantry, bugle and drum-
Full seven thousand in pomp and parade.
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- 5. Columbus
Behind him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the Gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores,
Before him only shoreless seas.
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