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<div class="lesson">LESSON XVII.</div>
<div class="chaphead">THE FAIRY ARTIST.</div>
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<td align="left"><p>Oh, there is a little artist<br/>
Who paints in the cold night hours<br/>
Pictures for little children<br/>
Of wondrous trees and flowers!</p>
<p>Pictures of snow-white mountains<br/>
Touching the snow-white sky;<br/>
Pictures of distant oceans<br/>
Where pretty ships sail by.<br/></p>
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<td align="left"><p>Pictures of rushing rivers<br/>
By fairy bridges spanned;<br/>
Bits of beautiful landscape<br/>
Copied from elfin land.</p>
<p>The moon is the lamp he paints by;<br/>
His canvas the window pane;<br/>
His brush is a frozen snowflake;<br/>
Jack Frost the artist's name.<br/></p>
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