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XI.

THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA.

In the hot sun, for water cool

She walked in listless mood:

When back she ran, her pitcher full

Forgot behind her stood.

Like one who followed straying sheep,

A weary man she saw,

Who

sat upon the well so deep, And nothing had to draw.

"Give me to drink," he said. Her hand

Was ready with reply;

From out the old well of the land

She drew him plenteously.

He spake as never man before;

She stands with open ears;

He spake of holy days in store,

Laid bare the vanished years.

She

cannot still her throbbing heart, She hurries to the town,

And

cries aloud in street and mart, "The Lord is here: come down."

Her

life before was strange and sad, A very dreary sound:

Ah,

let it go--or good or bad: She has the Master found!

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