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77

SNOWDROP

To-day I stood for half an hour
To watch a little Christian flower
That prayed beside a fence.
Her humble and devoted look,
As if she read a sacred book,
Was breathless reverence.
I think the Snowdrop must have been
Quite close to Jesus once, and seen
A revelation then
That made her promise Him to be
His angel of humility
For women and for men