While the earth shook and trembled and hungry flames wild Leaped skyward as building on building were piled. They perish by thousands, fathers and mothers, Husbands, wives, sisters, sweethearts and brothers; The rich and the poor, the high and the low, In the beautiful city of San Francisco. Sad, sad was their fate; sad, sad was their fate In the fair city of the Golden Gate; In the city of flowers and sunlight, In the city so gay and so bright, Sad, ah, sad was their fate! Death came when the first rosy tints of the morn In the eastern sky were beginning to dawn. What hopes and ambitions were then holding sway In the hearts of those people on San 'Frisco bay When death came to claim them eternity knows, Eternity knows and can only disclose. Sad, sad was their fate; sad, sad was their fate In the fair city of the Golden Gate; In the city of flowers and sunlight, In the city so gay and so bright, Sad, ah, sad was their fate! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FLIGHT OF LOVE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY PASTEL by MARSDON GILFORD ALBRITTON RED TREASURE by CAROLYN AUSTIN SAW YE JOHNNIE COMIN'? by JOANNA BAILLIE STANZAS TO A FRIEND by BERNARD BARTON A WAY TO A HAPPY NEW YEAR by ROBERT BREWSTER BEATTIE TO ONE IN A HOSTILE CAMP by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |