Cabrillo's visit to our Loma hill Became a legend passed along from sires To sons and daughters; told around old fires Built on these beaches when the wind was still At evening and the folk had had their fill Of fish and roasted seeds; and the loud choirs Of larks and mockingbirds were hushed. Desires For old tales woke again . . . tales told until From Acapulco Vizcaino brought His soldiers, sailors, priests -- four hundred men Seeking as in the @3Golden Hind@1 bold Drake had sought The straits of fabled Anian. And then There was a stir of wonder with wild terror fraught: The feet of lordly white men here again! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALFRED MOIR by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TO YOUTH by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR UPON THE DEATH OF SIR ALBERT MORTON'S WIFE by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS CHILD OF THE ROMANS by CARL SANDBURG INSCRIPTIONS: 8 by MARK AKENSIDE |