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Leaves of Grass (1891-92)
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MIRAGES.
( Noted verbatim after a supper-talk out doors in Nevada with two old miners. )
MORE experiences and sights, stranger, than you'd think for; |
Times again, now mostly just after sunrise or before sunset, |
Sometimes in spring, oftener in autumn, perfectly clear weather,
in plain sight,
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Camps far or near, the crowded streets of cities and the shop-
fronts,
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(Account for it or not—credit or not—it is all true, |
And my mate there could tell you the like—we have often con-
fab'd about it,)
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People and scenes, animals, trees, colors and lines, plain as could
be,
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Farms and dooryards of home, paths border'd with box, lilacs
in corners,
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Weddings in churches, thanksgiving dinners, returns of long-
absent sons,
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Glum funerals, the crape-veil'd mother and the daughters, |
Trials in courts, jury and judge, the accused in the box, |
Contestants, battles, crowds, bridges, wharves, |
Now and then mark'd faces of sorrow or joy, |
(I could pick them out this moment if I saw them again,) |
Show'd to me just aloft to the right in the sky-edge, |
Or plainly there to the left on the hill-tops. |
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