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 THE EASTER MESSAGE.

ONCE more the promise of the spring,

The quickening and awakening

Of sap and shoot,

And tender root;

Once more the miracle of birth

Along the length and breadth of earth;

Once more the breath

Of life for death.

Released again from winter's doom

Of frozen days, from Lenten gloom,

We seem to stand

In some new land,

And fresh the breeze that blows abroad

That brings the message of our Lord,