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    The Dried-up Fountain
    The Dried-up Fountain
    The Dried-up Fountain
    Audiobook34 minutes

    The Dried-up Fountain

    Written by Robert Leighton

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Dried-up Fountain by Robert Leighton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 18, 2011.

    This poem is taken from A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). (Summary by David Lawrence)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    The Dried-up Fountain
    Author

    Robert Leighton

    ROBERT LEIGHTON (1611–1684) was Archbishop of Glasgow and a Scottish presbyterian minister. Spurgeon called Leighton's commentary on 1 Peter "a true heavenly work."

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