Reborn
By George Sterling
What realms my memories of thee enfold!
Never I read a tear-compelling tale
Of queens that loved, or hero-vassaled grail,
But what the glimmer of thy locks of gold
Is on the heart's horizon, and I hold
The paths of legend, clad in blesséd mail,
Far-following thy shadow till it fail,
Or change to sorrow's star, forlornly cold.
Ah! Craig! and shall I lose thee? In thy face
Meet all the visions, beautiful and sad,
That woke man's hunger in the perished years,
When heroes travailed for a dream's embrace,
And marshaled where the swords of death were glad,
And sought thy lips beyond a thousand spears.
San Francisco.