Silver State in Winnemucca, Nevada

Dream of a ship and distant lands in old verse

A fragmentary reminiscence of youth and a legendary vessel with sails of snow, a crimson gold bow, and a Hope figurehead, fading after storms as the speaker recalls lost dreams and a past era. Interwoven are brief vignettes of a local election, a doctor anecdote, a flirtatious social scene, a birthday of homeopathy, a soap-eating contest, and miscellaneous oddities.