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Poetry’s California.

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Nature’s treasures are most often unveiled
to us by accident. A dog’s nose was dyed by
the bruised purple fish, and the genuine purple
dye was discovered; a pair of wild buffalos
were fighting on America’s auriferous soil, and
their horns tore up the green sward that covered
the rich gold vein.

"In former days," as it is said by most,
"everything came spontaneously. Our age has
not such revelations; now one must slave and
drudge if one would get anything; one must dig
down into the deep shafts after the metals, which

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