"The California Pioneers" (10 Mar 1852)
by Dr. M. A. Richter

[Source: facsimile copy on pp. 289-291 of "Songs of Yesterday:
A Song Anthology of American Life" by Philip D. Jordan and
Lillian Kessler (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co.,
Inc., 1941)]

I love this land, its sunny clime, its golden sand, 
its birds, their chime, its [lurfy?] vales, 
its flow’ry hills, its woodland dales, its crystal rills, 
its crystal rills. 

I love this land, its sunny clime, its golden sand, 
its birds, their chime, its [lurfy?] vales, 
its flowry hills, its woodland dales, 
its crystal rills, its crystal rills. 

But! more than that I love the man, 
the man with valor clad, with valor clad who left his clan 
of bliss & glee, of bliss & glee, of bliss & glee. 

I love the man with valor clad, who left his clan, 
to make this land of golden sand renown’d & free, 
to make this land renown’d & fee, 
to make this land renown’d & free, 
to make this land, this land renown’d & free.