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Thanks for the beautiful message,
  Fairies dainty and bright;
Thanks, oh frail water lillies,
  Gleaming in gold and white.



Nature's Frolic.
There's a rollicking freedom abroad on the breeze;
Old Nature makes merry, the great locust trees
Are shaking with laughter, expectancy thrills
The heart of all things o'er the valley and hills.

They wait for the music and lights, see,they come;
Hear the deep rolling tones of the heavy bass drum.
Such a flashing of pearls, such a gleaming of lights,
Such music, such dancing, a night of all nights.

All things together in rythm and rhyme,
The wild woods are singing in tune and in time;
The weeds and the blossoms, the grasses and grain
All nodding and swaying take up the refrain.
My spirit floats out to swing in the trees
With the rollicking spirit abroad on the breeze.

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