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Spring Carol - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Spring Carol

By Robert Louis StevensonSource: Robert Louis Stevenson - PoetryDB (Public Domain)141 words

WHEN loud by landside streamlets gush,

And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush,

With sun on the meadows

And songs in the shadows

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