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Depends on the person, I would guess. I don't think there's a specific answer.
The subject of the poem is life. When you look at it in depth, its entirety is a metaphor for the passing of life. Nature's first green is gold (the birth of a child, or new life), her hardest hue to hold (innocence passes fast with life, no matter how hard we try to hold on to it). Her early leaf's a flower; but only so an hour (again with the quick passing of time for life.) The leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief (death at the end of someone's life and the mourning that comes with it, if only a second to the hour of life), so dawn goes down to day (mourning is over, and the days continue after that someone passes and everyone has mourned). Nothing gold can stay (life is valuable, like gold, and vanishes much in the same way).
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The historical reality about the California Gold Rush represented in the fictional paragraph is A) the optimism of those who participated. Those who were after the gold had already big dreams and plans for the fortune they were after and it seemed that nothing would bring them down. They also didn't mind the skepticism of the folk they encountered along the way.
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