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Then all grew thoughtful; whereat Eleanor,
With gentle tact, called out,—
“A hymn! a tune!
Let us sing, sisters, now the preaching 's done!
Look! how the slanting sunbeams light the slope
Across the river!”
And her voice arose
Clear as an oriole's, in a grand psalm-tune
Married to one of Watts' old-fashioned hymns:—