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<div class="lesson">LESSON XXVIII.</div>
<div class="chaphead">SPRING.</div>
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<td align="left"><p>Drops of rain and bits of sunshine<br/>
Falling here and gleaming there,<br/>
Tiny blades of grass appearing.<br/>
Tell of springtime bright and fair.</p>
<p>Budding leaves are gently swaying,<br/>
Merry glad notes sweetly ring;<br/>
Robins, bluebirds, gayly singing,<br/>
Tell of happy, pleasant spring.</p>
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<td align="left"><p>Violets, in blue and purple,<br/>
By the twinkling water clear;<br/>
Fair spring beauties, frail and dainty,<br/>
Tell the story, spring is here.</p>
<p>Cherry, peach, and apple blossoms<br/>
Scattering fragrance far and wide;<br/>
Buttercups and pure white snowdrops<br/>
Tell of gracious, sweet springtide.</p>
<p><strong> ---Lillian
Cox.</strong></p>
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