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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That Passion breathes through Melody.

HERBERT BASHFORD,
in At the Shrine of Song.

SEPTEMBER 28.

In Marin County birds hold a unique place, for, as the county is sparsely populated, possessing many wild, secluded valleys, and unnumbered rolling hills covered with virgin forests, it is but natural that the birds should congregate in great numbers, reveling in the solitude which man invariably destroys.

HELEN BINGHAM,
in In Tamal Land.

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THE ABALONE.

I saw a rainbow, for an instant, gleam,

On the west edge of a receeding swell;