ONLY ONE HAD FAITH.
Long weeks the sky had been as brass, The land an arid plain. ' And all the people now, en nuts.se. Had met to pray for rain. From all the countryside they came, Perspiring, but devout, The young and old, the halt ami lame, And blind had all turned out. All day they prayed, and prayed, and prayed, With supplication loud, ’Twas ninety-seven in the shade— The sky without a cloud. The sun went down. The bright stars gleamed From out a brazen sky, And by their merry twinkle seemed To mock their misery. But on their journey home they caught A drenching—all that throng Save one good little girl who'd brought Her waterproof along.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 47, 21 November 1891, Page 620
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118ONLY ONE HAD FAITH. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 47, 21 November 1891, Page 620
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