My sins of commission, my sins of omission,
My sins of the Mission Dolores.’
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Charles Main, of Main & Winchester, attend
Who knows you not, yet knows that you and heTravel two roads that have a common end.We journey forward through the time allowed,I humbly bending, you erect and proud.Our heads alike will stable soon the wormThe one that’s lifted, and the one that’s bowed.You in your mausoleum shall repose,I where it pleases Him who sleep…
When lion and lamb have together lain down
‘The lamb doesn’t shrink nor the lion frownA miracle’s working before us!’But ‘t is patent why Hot-head his wrath holds in,And Faint-heart her terror and loathing;For the one’s but an ass in a lion’s skin,The other a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
What! imitate me, friend? Suppose that you
What I do easily-what then? You’ve gotA style I heartily wish _I_ had not.If I from lack of sense and you from choiceGrieve the judicious and the unwise rejoice,No equal censure our deserts will suitWe both are fools, but you’re an ape to boot!
How well this man unfolded to our view
This man whose own convictions none could tell,Nor if his maze of reason had a clew.Dogmas he wrote for daily bread, but knewThe fair philosophies of doubt so wellThat while we listened to his words there fellSome that were strangely comforting, though true.Marking how wise we grew upon his doubt,We said: ‘If so, by groping…
So, Beecher’s dead. His was a great soul, too
Hold in them all the souls of all the creedsThat man has ever taught and never knew.When on this mighty instrument He laidHis hand Who fashioned it, our common moanWas suppliant in its thundering. The toneGrew more vivacious when the Devil played.No more those luring harmonies we hear,And lo! already men forget the sound.They turn,…
In fair San Francisco a good man did dwell,
Said he: ‘It is proper, when making a gift,To stimulate virtue by comforting thrift.’So he left all his property, legal and straight,To ‘the cursedest rascal in all of the State.’But the name he refused to insert, for, said he:‘Let each man consider himself legatee.’In due course of time that philanthropist died,And all San Francisco, and…