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Every Kansan, homesick in a foreign land, knows the call of Kansas and every Kansan book lover knows Esther Clark's "Call of Kansas."
"Sweeter to me than the salt sea spray, the fragrance of summer rains: / Nearer my heart than these mighty hills 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 May.