. The ephebic oath . waters there was not a single light; no friend-ly gleam to tell of human sympathy in thedark. We who look through the Gate, now sowell lit, and mark the steady beam of thelightship, the flicker from the Farallones, theflash from Point Reyes and the kindly signalsfrom Bonita and Mile Rock, may well dosilent homage to the memory of those daringsouls who sailed these seas, ere yet there wasa City within the Gate, or welcoming LABOCANAJ

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