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90 Intoxicated unawares,

Where mountain peaks fenced out the world

And lonely tribes immortal grew,

Where freedom kissed the budding soul

And let the light of genius through.

O land of Greece! O land of art!

One picture of a race confined

To God and nature, till it snatched

Joy and despair for all mankind.

Along the fair Pacific slope

A chain of sea-kissed, sun-kissed lands—

Green orchards bend with endless bloom,

Bright rivers roll o'er golden sands;

Like sentinels the white peaks rise

That guard this new-world paradise;

Deep in her valleys genius waits

To nurse awhile her tropic bloom

That yet shall burst and bear abroad

Immortal cycles of perfume;

Sierra's heights, Willamette's vales,

Thy inland seas and southland sun

As fairer yet shall yet surpass

Old Delphi's fount and Helicon.

—Eva Emery Dye.

The judge whose judicial action is influenced by fear, adds official delinquency to his miserable