EASTER LILIES.
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Though long in wintry sleep ye lay, The powers of darkness could not stay Your coming at the call of day, Proclaiming spring. Nay, like the faithful virgins wise, With lamps replenished ye arise Ere dawn the death-anointed eyes Of Christ, the king. —John B. Tabb.
FROM COL. F. KAEMPFER, A. W. MUMFORD, PUBLISHER, CHICAGO. SCARLET IBIS. ⅓ Life-size. CHICAGO COLORTYPE CO., COPYRIGHT 1900, BY NATURE STUDY PUB. CO., CHICAGO.