I am not much on allegory nor sermonizing, but I declare San Francisco gets me started.  And when walking along about one’s business, one sees such a vivid picture, the allegory forces itself.  The grandeur of yesterday, the serious beauty of today, and then the wild flowers that covered the hills before man interfered and will live on after man has gone into dust to make new flowers.

Such a contemplation would make some people blue but it gives me a feeling of something basic and secure and eternal in all this strange puzzle of life.  It was a beautiful day up there on the tip-toe of Nob Hill.  What a beautiful view they must have had from the mansion windows.  The same sky and the same banks of heavy soft white clouds.  And Job, that mysterious man of the Bible, must have looked up at just such a sky when those stern questions came to him: 

“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?  Declare if thou hast understanding.

“Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of Him that is perfect in knowledge?”

“Hast thou with Him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?”

The nob of Nob Hill, how close it is to the sky.

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