The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of each

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In the flowers, in the shells, in the stars of the night.

JOSIAH KEEP,
in Shells and Sea-Life.

MARCH 29.

BACK TO THE DESERT.

Call it the land of thirst,

Call it the land accurst,

Or what you will;

There where the heat-lines twirl

And the dust-devils whirl