Dust always blowing about the town, 
Except when sea-fog laid it down, 
And I was one of the children told 
Some of the blowing dust was gold. 
 
All the dust the wind blew high 
Appeared like god in the sunset sky, 
But I was one of the children told 
Some of the dust was really gold. 
 
Such was life in the Golden Gate: 
Gold dusted all we drank and ate, 
And I was one of the children told, 
'We all must eat our peck of gold.'
Robert Lee Frost
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-peck-of-gold/