The San Rosario Ranch

"Welcome her, all things youthful and sweet, Scatter the blossoms under her feet!" The house was a large square building, simple and hospitable in appearance. A wide veranda ...

"Look to yourselves, ye polished gentlemen! No city airs or arts pass current here. Your rank is all reversed: let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls."...

"And to watch you sink by the fireside now Back again, as you mutely sit Musing by fire-light, that great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it." John Douglass Gr...

"Then, in the boyhood of the year, Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere Rode through the coverts of the deer With blissful treble ringing clear; She seemed a part of j...

Where have we lived and loved before this, sweet? My will ere now hath led thy wayward feet; I knew thy beauties--limbs, lips, brows, and hair-- Before these eyes behel...

"Did young people take their pleasure when the sea was warm in May? When they made up fresh adventures for the morrow do you say?" The week's visit at the Shallops...

"A flame! Her clear soul's essence slips, To steep for aye with mine, from her fast-whitening lips!" Several days passed before these two who, hand in hand, had looked death ...

"Oui, les premiers baisers, oui, les premiers serments Que deux etres mortels echangerent sur terre Ce fut au pied d' un arbre effeuille par les vents, Sur un roc en po...

"And in the forest delicate clerks, unbrowned, Sleep on the fragrant brush as on down-beds. Up with the dawn, they fancied the light air That circled freshly in their f...

"Thereon comes what awakening! One grave sheet Of cold implacable white about me drawn"-- John Graham was one of those men in whose nature there seems no trace of feminality....

"Dearer than woman's love Is yonder sunset fading in the sky!" After that night's vigil, Graham took his gun, and packing a blanket and a few camping utensils in his saddle-ba...

"Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o' the building." The breakfast table at the San Rosario Ranch was usually a...

"Abroad it rushed, My frolic soul, for it had sight Of something half-way, which was known As mine at once, yet not mine own." It was early in the morning for Millicen...

"Dust and ashes, dead and done with, Venice spent what Venice earned. The soul, doubtless, is immortal--where a soul can be discerned." It was a pitifu...

"It cannot be that love so deep as mine Could fail to stay you like ethereal wine." When he first understood the full import of the dreadful story, John Graham had been dazed ...

"If we should part and pass to separate ways With stifled sigh, averted head, Within a land where centuries are as days Our love shall live though flesh and wrong lie...

"Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moistened many a thousand years, Since man first pent his brother men Like brutes within an iron den." It was a long chase ...

"... the passions of her mind, As winds from all the compass shift and blow, Made war upon each other for an hour." "Millicent! Millicent! are you awake?" It was the eve...

"Je me dis seulement; a cette heure en ce lieu, Un jour, je fus aime, j'aimais, elle etait belle. J'enfouis ce tresor dans mon ame immortelle. Et je l'emporte a Dieu!" ...

"Malheureux! cet instant ou votre ame engourdie A secoue les fers qu' elle traine ici-bas, Ce fugitif instant fut toute votre vie; Ne le regrettez pas." It was a w...