Look northward! See the Sacramento glide Through valleys blooming like a royal bride, And bearing onward to the ocean's shore A richer freight than Arno ever bore! See! also fanned by cool refreshing gales, Fair Petaluma and her sister vales, Whose fields and orchards ornament the plain And deluge earth with one vast sea of grain! Look southward! Santa Clara smiles afar, As in the fields of heaven, a radiant star; Los Angeles is laughing through her vines; Old Monterey sits moody midst her pines; Far San Diego flames her golden bow, And Santa Barbara sheds her fleece of snow, Whilst Bernardino's ever-vernal down Gleams like an emerald in a monarch's crown! Look eastward! On the plains of San Joaquin Ten thousand herds in dense array are seen. Aloft like columns propping up the skies The cloud-kissed groves of Calaveras rise; Whilst dashing downward from their dizzy home The thundering falls of Yo Semite foam! Look westward! Opening on an ocean great, Behold the portal of the Golden Gate! Pillared on granite, destined e'er to stand The iron rampart of the sunset land! With rosy cheeks, fanned by the fresh sea-breeze, The petted child of the Pacific seas, See San Francisco smile! Majestic heir Of all that's brave, or bountiful, or fair, Pride of our land, by every wave carest, And hailed by nations, Venice of the West! Where then is Eden? Ah! why should I tell, What every eye and bosom know so well? Why thy name the land all other lands have blest, And traced for ages to the distant West? Why search in vain throughout th' historic page For Eden's garden and the Golden Age? HERE, BROTHERS, HERE! NO FURTHER LET US ROAM; THIS IS THE GARDEN! EDEN IS OUR HOME! [Decoration] # # # # # Transcriber's Notes: 1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_. 2. Words in Bold are surrounded by =equal= signs. 3. Words in both Bold and Gothic Font are surrounded by bars and equal signs |=text=|. 4. Any footnotes in the original text have been placed directly under the paragraph or passage containing their anchors. 5. The following words with the [oe] ligature appeared in the original text: manoeuvre, Croesus, oesophagus. The ligature has been removed for the purpose of this e-text. Punctuation corrections: p. 30, removed double quote from unquoted passage (and deprecated the action) p. 69, added closing quote to passage ("...responsibility at once.") p. 124, added closing quote to passage ("...discovering one of them.") p. 182, adding closing quote to passage ("...degree of curvature.") Spelling corrections: p. 69, "insenate" to "insensate" (Shall insensate nature) p. 138, "pursuaded" to "persuaded" (2) (I was persuaded that) p. 148, "Leverier" to "Leverrier" (2) (Leverrier computed the orbit)