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row he will go to heaven. We are fixing these saw that which no child eyes should see.
flowers to make him know we are glad." Perhaps if the mother had had time it
Just then someone called the young ladies, might not have been so. But she bad no
and they hurried away to another part of time. The hungry little mouths must eat.
the church, leaving the little sister and her No one else had any time.
brother to make their way out. The little In the tiny slum liack yard, full`of old
sister carried the flowers gathered up in the barrels, old cans, old dirt, they planted the
skirt of her dress. sweet stemless lilies. First in a line, then
"Ain't they nice," said she. in a square, then in a ring.
"They ain't got no legs," answered the
little brother. On Easter Day the bells rang out?~their
"Stims, yer mean," corrected the little tidings "Christ is risen!"
sister. The choir boys in the church walked up
"Yes, stims," repeated he. the lily-lined aisle singing the glad carol.
"Well, but they've got! noses; they It was the most beautifully decorated
smell," said the little sister. lIer own small church in the city. Everyone said so.
mose had been made in Ireland. But the congregation found the sweetness
All the way home they sniffed at the of the lilies almost too intense.
lilies, talking meanwhile. The child lips Deep in the cool green cafions the creeks
could say that which no child lip should were saying, "llush, hush." And down in
know. The child ears had heard that which the tiny filthy back yard in the slums the
no child ears should hear; and the child eyes ring of lilies lay like a little white halo.
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~OULD you know, 0 Sweetheart mine,
As it blows across the bloom
-- What the wind is saying,
On the rose-tree swaying? -
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-`Though you cling so firm and fast
I at last will win you,
Push the sheltering petals by,
Reach the heart within you."
Would you know, 0 Sweetheart mine,
What my heart keeps saying,
When you coldly turn aside,
lleedless of my praying?
"~Though she is so calm and cold,
Love at last must win her,
Breaktthe barriers of her pride,
Reach the heart within her.
Elizabeth Harman.