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weeter to me than the salt sea spray
the fragrance of summer rains;
Nearer my heart than the mighty hills
May.
are the wind-swept Kansas plains;
Dearer the sight of a shy wild rose by
the roadside's dusty way
Than all the splendor of poppy-fields
ablaze in the sun of
Gay as the bold poinsettia is, and the
burden of pepper trees
The sunflower, tawny and gold and brown,
is richer, to me, than these:
And rising ever above the song of the
hoarse insistent sea,
The voice of the prairie calling Calling me.
THE CALL OF
KANSAS
was written at Long
Beach, California, in
May, 1907. The author,
Miss Esther M.Clark, is
a Kansas girl, and a-
mid all the beauties
of the Golden State
She longed for the old
familiar scenes, and
wrote home this ex-
pression of her feelings
with no thought of the
popularity that would
soon be accorded the
little gem, or the fame
it would bring to her.
Back:
a letter
Will write you like
soon 20
Conn. as well as
lady
M. L. ZERCHER BOOK AND STATIONERY CO., TOPEKA, KAN., PUBLISHERS.
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liked Kanses?
The Kaw.
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WAMEC
JAN
12
DRESS M
1909
ANS
SKRIEN UH07
UNITED STATES OF
1706 FRANKLIN 1790
young
I tell you
This is the
coming constry and at Miss Belle Rogen
he
Best state in the Union
Danbury
Chas Brower.
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