New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 62Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1841 |
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Page 475 - For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; the fifl-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
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