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 earth and blossom, sea and sky,

Would be empty without the seeing eye,

That form and color, movement and rhythm

Are not true elements of heaven

Till passed through transforming power of thought;

For eye seeth only what soul hath wrought.

Ah! Beauty, thou the flowering art

Of the upright mind and guileless heart.

MARY RUSSELL MILLS.