Poem by Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller

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A dull eyed rattlesnake that lay
All loathsome, yellow-skinned, and slept,
Coil'd tight as pine-knot, in the sun
With flat head through the center run,
Struck blindly back. 

1. Joaquin Miller to the Money Getter
2. Twilight at the Heights
3. Vaquero
4. In Southern California
5. California on the Passing of Tennyson

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