LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Life at the Mission of Dolores, 1855
] [View of Montgomery, Post and Market Streets, San Francisco, 1858
] [Fort Point at the Golden Gate
] [The Outer Signal Station at the Golden Gate
] [City of Oakland in 1856
] [Interior of the El Dorado
] [Warner's at Meigg's Wharf
] [The Old Flume at Black Point, 1856
] [Lone Mountain, 1856
] [Russ Gardens, 1856
] [Certificate of Membership, Vigilance Committee, 1856
] [West from Black Point, 1856
] ["China is Not More Chinese than this Section of Our Christian City."
] ["Rag Alley" in Old Chinatown
] [The Farallones
] [Murre on their Nests, Farallone Islands
] [Monterey, 1850
] [San Carlos de Carmelo
] ["The Huge Court of that Luxurious Caravansary."
] ["The Gallery Among the Huge Vases of Palms and Creepers."
] [Meigg's Wharf in 1856
] [Telegraph Hill, 1855
] [Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite, in 1869
] [San Francisco in 1856
]
THE BELLS OF SAN GABRIEL
HINE was the corn and the wine,
The blood of the grape that nourished;
The blossom and fruit of the vine
That was heralded far away.
These were thy gifts; and thine,
When the vine and the fig-tree flourished,
The promise of peace and of glad increase
Forever and ever and aye.
What then wert thou, and what art now?
Answer me, O, I pray!
And every note of every bell
Sang Gabriel! Rang Gabriel!
In the tower that is left the tale to tell
Of Gabriel, the Archangel.
Oil of the olive was thine;
Flood of the wine-press flowing;
Blood o' the Christ was the wine—
Blood o' the Lamb that was slain.
Thy gifts were fat o' the kine
Forever coming and going
Far over the hills, the thousand hills—
Their lowing a soft refrain.
What then wert thou, and what art now?
Answer me, once again!
And every note of every bell
Sang Gabriel! Rang Gabriel!
In the tower that is left the tale to tell
Of Gabriel, the Archangel.