The wedding of the rose and the lotus: A poem written on the completion of the Panama Canal, showing how the genius of the West, here typified by the rose, and the genius of the East, here typified by the lotus, are to be merged and mingled in one

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay. At end of poem: California day, Feb. 20, 1915. Poem within ornamental border. Originally published in 1912 under title: The wedding of the rose and the lotus : a poem written on the near-completion of the Panama Canal. First lines: Flags of the Pacific and the Atlantic meet.