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WHAT A SMILE CAN DO.
Sweet, do you know what a smile can do?Listen, and I will tell;
Send upon souls that are dry, soft dew,
Scatter the fires of hell,
From grey clouds open a glimpse of blue,
Oceans of happiness swell,
Slay false dreams, bringing in the true,
Change a funereal knell,
Breezes that over the churchyard blew,
Into the wind of a bell
Wingèd with echoes of sounds that flew
News of a marriage to tell.
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