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by Unknown

HILE I hid mine eyes, I feared;

The heavens in wrath seemed bowed;

I look, and the sun with a smile breaks forth,

And a rainbow spans the cloud.

I thought the winter was here,

That the earth was cold and bare,

But I feel the coming of birds and flowers,

And the spring-time in the air.

I said that all the lips