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San Francisco’s Fate
Urban LifeSan Francisco's Fate
243
With the wreck of her shattered glory,
Desolate, dire, complete;
With her landmarks grim and hoary
Strewn at her bleeding feet;
With the golden fruits of doing
Undone in a single day;
With the madden'd fates pursuing-
The…
San Francisco Redeemed
Urban LifeSan Francisco Redeemed
66
Serenely proud has been thy reign,
Fair mistress of the Golden Gate,
NO Now through through they Great Baptismal Fire,
Predestined to a Great Estate
Ambassadors from every clime
Have here their flags unfurled;…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Francisco
67
Immersed in golden shadows
At the close of a busy day,
Thy hills and vales St Francis,
In peace and quiet lay
Clothed in the folds of slumber,
Fair Morpheus reigned supreme
Unconscious of death and destruction
Thy portion unwritten,…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Francisco
401
Fair mistress of the great blue sea
Thy head is bent;
Upon thy sea thou dost not smile,
Thy heart is rent
What of the night before the morn?
Then were thine eyes
The envy of the stars that looked
From soul of skies
What…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Francisco
321
How fair she looked! and calm, queen of the West!
As though no auguish s'er could plerce her breast
Tranguli and similing she in slumber luy
At walking dawn upon that fatal day
No rosente tinge yet graced the early morn:…
To San Francisco
Urban LifeTo San Francisco
395
O guardian of the nation's western gate!
Keeping your lookout on our destinies,
Where lles the mystic Orlent over seas,
The world beholds you torn and desolate;
O'erthrown as if through Nature's deadly hate,
Destroyed,…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Franciso
394
She laughed upon her hills out there
Beside her bays of misty blue;
The gayest hearts, the sweetest air
That any city ever knew
For I have whistled all the songs
That thrilled upon her care-free breath,
And I have mingled…
San Francisco’s Promise
Urban LifeSan Francisco's Promise
402
Thy Past rolled up in smoke and cloud
And darkness of catastrophe:
Thy Future rises, strong and proud,
Through ashes of thine agony;
Still foams the brine upon thy breast
Where great ships gather to their rest,…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Francisco
63
Earth trmbled like a wounded bird on wing;
Dark, hushed and still was everything,
Save those in horror of that hour, who heard again,
Earth laboring in her stress of pain,
Proud structures with granite walls and tower,
Crumbled…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Francisco
By Joaquin Miller
492
Such darkness, as when Jesus died!
Then sudden dawn drave all before
Two wee brown tomtits, terrified,
Flashed through my open cottage door;
Then instant out and off again
And left a stillness like to…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Francisco
102
She sits upon her seven hills,
All bare and blackened now,
A mourning vell of sable smoke
Obscures her stricken brow
She weeps above her dead that lie
Uncounted in the gloom
With ashes for a winding-sheet
And cinders…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Francisco
65
O stricken San Francisco, thou
Fair queen of all the West!
Thy ruined homes, thy bleeding hearts,
The ories of thy distress'd,
Fill all the land with sorrow,
We mourn, as one, thy fate,
The gay voice hushed, the form now crushed,
Beside…
San Francisco
Urban LifeSan Francisco
2495
Everybody works but father,
And he sits 'round all day,
Boreing all the neighbors
With what he has to say
Mother takes in washing
Willie's scraping bricks
Everybody works but father- He's talking politics
The San Francisco Earth-Quake
Urban LifeThe San Francisco Earth-Quake
322
It was early in the morning
On an April morning falr
When a city fair and merciful
Was quivering in the air
There swaying to and fro
Were buildings great and small;
Then with a mighty crash
Began a city's…