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<div class="lesson">LESSON XIII.</div>
<div class="chaphead">RAIN, WIND, AND SNOW.<br/>
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Watch the pretty snowflakes fall,<br/>
Some are large and some are small;<br/>
Look, they cover all the ground,<br/>
Miles of dazzling white around;<br/>
But this covering, I am told,<br/>
Keeps the earth from frost and cold.</p>
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<td align="left"><p>Ah! and I must work alway,<br/>
Life's not meant to spend in play;<br/>
Every moment's fleeting fast,<br/>
And our day will soon be past;<br/>
If our work is truly done,<br/>
It will last though ages run.</p>
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<p>Of what use is rain? Of what use is snow? Of what use is
wind?</p>
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