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Luck favored her, for she had sat on the great post but a moment longer, when a soft voice singing made her look up. Sprite, her hands filled with flowers, was coming toward her. She was looking down at her blossoms, and did not notice the child on the post. "Bright, glist'ning summer sea, Bring thou a ship to me, Sailing so gallantly over the main.
I loos'd my hold: 'twas Matt. Soames. "Your pardon," whisper'd I; "but why have you left your post?" "Black Sampson is watchin', so I took the freedom ugh! my poor windpipe! to " He broke off to catch me by the sleeve and pull me down behind the bush. About twelve paces ahead I heard a door softly open'd and saw a shaft of light flung across the path between the glist'ning laurels.
And Jean strained her ears to listen, while the steps and the voices came nearer, and still nearer. "'Hark! Hark! About the gray old belfry tower Their gladsome notes resound, And carol through the moonlight hour, O'er snowy sward and glist'ning bower, The glory of the Lord, whose saving power On earth to-night was found."
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