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Coming here
_! M; i+ [( g2 hSettling down
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4 f4 O0 u& r3 l7 i- ?Homesick
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set the clock's dark hands
& I3 Q0 ?1 r& {8 p, lwith a view of returning to home ground
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! o$ f3 m, r0 b+ RDays inched into years
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come and go back/ d* U- [+ o8 ^ u2 U' m
go and come back( M4 D6 P2 [% v) m# W: |
We never did: J7 O) y# L- J7 I* J; Q
nor can we now
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. W t2 U: j. T$ S9 o5 W& c* O; Aleave our children * k: P, I1 R k4 @
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settled down in theirs
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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