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The Golden Whales of California

by Vachel Lindsay

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  1. 1Verse — Note
  2. 2Dedication — A Word on California, Photoplays, and Saint Francis
  3. 3First Section — The Longer Pieces, With Interludes
  4. 4Kalamazoo
  5. 5John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston
  6. 6Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan
  7. 7Rameses II
  8. 8Moses
  9. 9A Rhyme for All Zionists
  10. 10A Meditation on the Sun
  11. 11Dante
  12. 12The Comet of Prophecy
  13. 13Shantung, or the Empire of China Is Crumbling Down
  14. 14The Last Song of Lucifer
  15. 15Second Section — A Rhymed Scenario, Some Poem Games, and the Like
  16. 16The Lame Boy and the Fairy
  17. 17The Blacksmith’s Serenade
  18. 18The Apple Blossom Snow Blues
  19. 19The Daniel Jazz
  20. 20When Peter Jackson Preached in the Old Church
  21. 21The Conscientious Deacon
  22. 22Davy Jones’ Door-Bell
  23. 23The Sea Serpent Chantey
  24. 24The Little Turtle
  25. 25Third Section — Cobwebs and Cables
  26. 26The Visit to Mab
  27. 27The Song of the Sturdy Snails
  28. 28Another Word on the Scientific Aspiration
  29. 29Dancing for a Prize
  30. 30Cold Sunbeams
  31. 31For All Who Ever Sent Lace Valentines
  32. 32My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree
  33. 33To Eve, Man’s Dream of Wifehood as Described by Milton
  34. 34A Kind of Scorn
  35. 35Harps in Heaven
  36. 36The Celestial Circus
  37. 37The Fire-Laddie, Love
  38. 38Fourth Section — Rhymes Concerning the Late World War and the Next War
  39. 39The Tiger on Parade
  40. 40The Fever Called War
  41. 41Stanzas in Just the Right Tone for the Spirited Gentlemen Who Would…
  42. 42The Modest Jazz-Bird
  43. 43The Statue of Old Andrew Jackson
  44. 44Sew the Flags Together
  45. 45Justinian
  46. 46The Voice of St. Francis of Assisi
  47. 47In Which Roosevelt Is Compared to Saul
  48. 48Hail to the Sons of Roosevelt
  49. 49The Spacious Days of Roosevelt
  50. 50Fifth Section — Rhymes of the Middle West and Springfield, Illinois
  51. 51The Fairy From the Apple-Seed
  52. 52A Hot Time in the Old Town
  53. 53The Dream of All the Springfield Writers
  54. 54The Springfield of the Far Future
  55. 55After Reading the Sad Story of the Fall of Babylon
  56. 56Alexander Campbell
  57. 57I — My Fathers Came From Kentucky
  58. 58II — Written in a Year When Many of My People Died
  59. 59III — A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them…

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