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Joaquin Miller To The Money Getter

Joaquin Miller 1837 (Indiana) – 1913 (Oakland)

Yes! I am a dreamer.
  
While you seek gold in the earth, why, I
See gold in the steeps of the starry sky;
And which do you think has the fairer view
Of God in heaven the dreamer or you?
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Scheme X AABB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 182
Words 41
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 4
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Joaquin Miller

Cincinnatus Heine Miller, better known by his pen name Joaquin Miller, was a colorful American poet and frontiersman. He is nicknamed the "Poet of the Sierras" after the Sierra Nevada, about which he wrote in his Songs of the Sierras. more…

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