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Coming here
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Homesick
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set the clock's dark hands# I! x" ]' n6 H$ n
with a view of returning to home ground. U! {8 G/ G& h/ S6 J
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Days inched into years
2 ~/ b" ^& j( {5 X) pI watched others
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go and come back
1 g0 u* ~! U; J& Z( g" SWe never did
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resettle in the old country
+ y( l$ f8 R( V; [leave our children & t, b" D$ T7 d$ j3 x
and their children " O r/ l& B2 O+ ^0 P+ p; I
settled down in theirs
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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