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Lyrics of Lowly Life.

But almost before it knew it  It found itself a plant.
The sunshine poured upon it,  And the clouds they gave a shower; And the little plant kept growing  Till it found itself a flower.
Little folks, be like the seedling,  Always do the best you can; Every child must share life's labor  Just as well as every man.
And the sun and showers will help you  Through the lonesome, struggling hours, Till you raise to light and beauty  Virtue's fair, unfading flowers.

PROMISE.


I GREW a rose within a garden fair,  And, tending it with more than loving care, I thought how, with the glory of its bloom, I should the darkness of my life illume;

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