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/ "Serene, indifferent to fate, / Thou sittest at the Western Gate; / Thou seest the white seas fold their tents, / Oh, warder of two continents; / Thou drawest all things, small and great, / To thee, beside the Western Gate."
THIS is what Bret Harte has written of the great city of San Francisco, and for the past fortnight I have been wondering what made him do it.