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CALIFORNIA
By Annie Elizabeth Cheney
There are lands where the poppies are golden,
Where the skies are a rapture in blue,
Where the breezes on roses are stealing,
But land of my love, what of you?
There are lands where the birds warble ever,
Where the air is a-thrill in the sun,
Where the singer and song sever never,