ALL ROUND THE YEAR]

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[Illustrated text:

ALL ROUND THE YEAR

By E. NESBIT and CARIS BROOKE.

Drawings by H. BELLINGHAM SMITH and others.

LONDON: von PORTHEIM & Co. Paternoster Row E.C.

Printed in Germany]

All round the year the changing suns and rains Beat on men's work to wreck and to decay But nature builds more perfectly than they, Her changing unchanged sea resists, remains.

All round the year new flowers spring up to shew How gloriously life is more strong than death; And in our hearts are seeds of love and faith, Ah, sun and showers, be kind, and let them grow.

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RESURGAM.

Swift pass the hours, or lengthened by our hearts Uncertain measurement of time, And when we dream the year has just awoke, We wake to find her in her prime.