balsam-spruce

Updated: June 19, 2025

Sorely distressed I hear a satyr's mocking laugh As on my laurels resting, on my seat of honor cast And thanking you for kind attention now your indulgent censure ask. On the summit of a mountain I staked my claim; in the shade of a balsam-spruce I built my hut.

George (Henry George August) Hartmann - Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales