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California Visions and Realities
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Excerpt from California Visions and Realities: A Series of Poems, May, 1855
An Invocation.
Thou Goddess, Muse! light in my brain thy lamp
With a celestial flame, guide thou my thoughts
In numbers smooth, and ev'ry line do thou
Improve with some fresh image from thy spheres,
From whence all Poesy appears to those
Who court thy graceful charm, and do my soul
From fears disarm of those who are so prone
To sneer, when new-born Poets do appear
To add a ray with their dim flame, to light
The onward step of time.
O, Thou! in whom
I place my trust, knowing my motive to
Be just, be with me in the silent hour,
And aid me with Thy heavenly power to guide
My purpose to that end, which may no eye
Of man offend, but Thee! especially would
I please, so, free me from that dread disease,
Which constant preys upon my mind - the fear
Of being folly-blind. I know my effort
May be weak, though I shall ever try to
Seek Thy grace, Thy power and holy sanction.
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