CALIFORNIA SKETCHES

New Series.



By O. P. Fitzgerald

With an Introduction by Bishop George F. Pierce.



The bearded men in rude attire,
With nerves of steel and hearts of fire,
The women few but fair and sweet,
Like shadowy visions dim and fleet,
Again I see, again I hear,
As down the past I dimly peer,
And muse o'er buried joy and pain,
And tread the hills of youth again.




1883.



A Word.