20 Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers 



THE GOLDEN POPPY 

 Our State Flower 



Eschscholzia calif or nica Cham. 



God's Gold 



By JOAQUIN MILLER 



"This Golden Poppy is God's gold; 



The gold that lifts, nor weighs us dorvn, 

 The gold that knows no miser's hold, 



The gold that banks not in the town, 

 But careless, laughing, freely spills 



Its gold far up the happy hills!' 



