Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Western States | | California | | Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865) |
| | | LAND of gold!—thy sisters greet thee, | |
| O’er the mountain and the main; | |
| See,—they stretch the hand to meet thee, | |
| Youngest of our household train. | |
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| Many a form their love hath fostered | 5 |
| Lingers ’neath thy sunny sky, | |
| And their spirit-tokens brighten | |
| Every link of sympathy. | |
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| We mid storms of war were cradled | |
| Mid the shock of angry foes; | 10 |
| Thou, with sudden, dreamlike splendor, | |
| Pallas-born,—in vigor rose. | |
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| Children of one common country, | |
| Strong in friendship let us stand, | |
| With united ardor earning | 15 |
| Glory for our Mother Land. | |
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| They of gold and they of iron, | |
| They who reap the bearded wheat, | |
| They who rear the snowy cotton, | |
| Pour their treasures at her feet; | 20 |
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| While with smiling exultation, | |
| She, who marks their filial part, | |
| Like the mother of the Gracchi, | |
| Folds her jewels to her heart. | | | | |
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