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I. PRELUDE
Hear a word that Jesus spake / Nineteen hundred years ago, / Where the crimson lilies blow / Round the blue Tiberian lake: / There the bread of life He brake, / Through the fields of harvest walking / With His lowly comrades, talking / Of the secret thoughts that feed / Weary souls in time of need.