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TRUANT by MARY CASS CANFIELD

First Line: FIFTY LADIES TROT TO CHURCH
Last Line: GOD IS IN THE APPLE TREES.
Subject(s): PUBLIC WORSHIP; CHURCH ATTENDANCE;
Fifty ladies trot to church
To hear Reverend Doctor Burch --
He treads the path without a lurch.

Fifty ladies heave and sigh,
Twenty-five make shift to cry
Doctor Burch's tone is high.

The man in hard black wields a rod:
None would ever dare to nod
When he lays the law for God.

But God is an artful tease:
God is in the evening breeze,
God is in the apple trees.



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