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V -e.: :-:mm ' - ' -- ' Great Day in the Morning Golden Gate! W hen they named you ' ' golden ' ' the San Franciscans named you well. You ive miracultnis entry into a goodly and a remembered land. Iloir often, lying at some far anc hor, have you risen before us waking and sleeping. Distant, desired, beckoning, you have been half dream, half hope — all mirage . . . When we beheld you last the California sun was hid- den and a fog was drifting in from the sea. lloir tnany fogs have blanketed you since then only you can Anoir for we have wearied with counting the days. But fog never was that could veil your brightness, seen in our mifif ' .s fond eye. Standing in from the sea some day ((rreat Day. come swiftly) in a very fog of fogs you will justify yitur name and be for us a golden gate. The sptins of your arching bridge touch land, and that land is of one piece with Home! U ith his feet on the land, the exulting sailor slututs. his need is but for stout sIhu ' s to carry him along the familiar rtuids whether they le ad near or far. (). dreamed-of shining. Golden gate I Celestial por- tal, heareidy aperture. T t approach ■ »» »» an itnutm- ing tide shall be our endeavor. Hut should the tide be flowing out too strong for a tired ship, swirl it ever .so .stvift we shall go over the barnacled side ami push. Surely a tlnmsand men. yearning for home, could move leviathan against an ebbing tide . . . if it be tlint tide flons thrttugh a C olden Gate . . . -W. IN. I ' age Si x I Y- 1 our
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ALL WIVES, MOTHERS, SWEETHEARTS, FRIENDS — WHOSOE ' ER YE BE WHO IVRITE US LETTERS , . . ; I iU ' ST LIEUT .ICHAI D L h mT ■ STATION 12 PW ATC PM APO 952 iCiSCO, CALIF. A -: 2 VIA AIR MAIL ARK PLEEHART r f- .. -- :a,. ' :a; |S iiJai ' toM ifi| C O FLEET POSTOFFICE 3AN F!iANCIS?(j , OF ALL EXPEDITIONS ,.,ADE OVER A SHIP ' S SIDE, NONE ARE MRE MOMENTOUS THAN THOSE THE l lAIL-aERK MAI Eo. GO IMG, HE TAKES ASHORE THE OUTPOURED HEARTS OF A THOUSAND K.EN. RETURNING - IF THE PLANES HAVE FLO ' VN THAT DAY - HE BRINGS MISSIVES THAT CAN .AKE THEIR READERS GLOiV AT SUPPER L I KE VEtt I TABLE ' FJREFLY CAGES. THE .TORD3 ARE COI.iMONPLACE ENOUGH. DE. ' RE3T JOHN: NOW THAT THE . 1ILDREN ARE IN BED I TAKE UP MY PEN TO rRITE TO YOU... THE ' :VINTER 13 MILD IhIS YEAR... THE CHILDREN ARE ' flELL... WE ALL MI3S YOU SO... HO V VERVv COI.:i ON PLACE THE ' ORDS. , , ' AND YET HC.V l AniCALLY FOR EACH MAN D(5 ir LON WAY. HOV CHANGED THE HEAVING WORLD OF SKY NO .LONGER DO ' ,VE SLIDE FORLORNLY DO V! ! THE HILLS OF TUl ' .BLED WATER. NO LONGER 13 THE HORIZON DARK OR THE FUTURE FORBIDDING. ON TWO THIN SHEETS OF PAfER. STRANGELY. 13 SOMETHING AS SATISFYING A3 BREAD ' ICN ONE 13 HUNGRY NOT YET HAVE I SEEN THE CELESTIAL CURI BUT, IF THEY GIVE TO f.E THE CHOOSING, THE BANK NOT HEAVEN WILL BE THESE LETTERS FROi; HOME! BE GAREFUl, hi. JCKS. THAT BAG YOU CARRY - GUARD IT WELL., ' IT IS NOT GREY CANVAS ONLY AS YOU IMAGINE. IF YOU CARRIED UP THE GANGWAY SAC OF GOLD, YOU WOULD NOT BE BRINGING GREATER TREASURE. THIS IS WHAT I SAY: IF I V EKE THE GENERAL AN ARV.Y OR A CAPTAIN OF A SHIP, ON THE (..ORNING OF THE i WE ENGAGED THE ENEMY THERE WOULD BE HAJ.. AND EGGS FOR BREAKFAST. AND ON EACH TRAY OR BY EACH PLATE I ' D PU ' A LETTER. AND ON THAT DAY - YOU li ' .AY WRITE IT L ' I WOULD BE THE VICTORY... f. -.r.N. K .: V- -MAIL 4 N N ir-is : ili o K
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