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"American Female Poets [an electronic edition]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE7433.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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THE LITTLE SPRING.
BENEATH a green and mossy bankThere flows a clear and fairy stream;There the pert squirrel oft has drank,And thought, perhaps, 't was made for him.
Their pitchers there the labourers fill,As drop by drop the crystals flow,
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Singing their silvery welcome stillTo all who to the fountain go.
Then to the river on it glides,Its tributary drop to bear;Its modest head a moment hides,Then rises up and sparkles there.
The touching lesson on my heartFalls like the gentle dews of heaven,Bids me with humble love impartThe little treasure God has given.
For from a source as small as thisFull many a cup of joy may flow,And on the stream of human blissIts little ray of gladness throw.
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