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Poetry: Individual Influence

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
November
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
Additional Text

A fourth stanza is included in other printings. See, for example, Lyric Gems: A Collection of Original and Select Sacred Poetry, ed. Samuel Francis Smith, Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln, 1844.

Poem
OCR Text

Wbat if the little rain should say, So srnall a drcp as I Can ne'er refresh those tbirety fields - I'll tarry in the sky Í What - if a Bhining bearn of moon Should in its fountain stay, Because its feeble light alone Cannot créate a day' Doth not each rain drop, help tb form Tbecool, refreshing ehower, And overy ray of light to warm Andbeaulify theflowerV'