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Coming here
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Homesick
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set the clock's dark hands. N4 z" p& Q& ?2 K, V, @6 t1 q3 T) I
with a view of returning to home ground
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Days inched into years
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come and go back5 G# ]: Y) |% O# p
go and come back5 }5 u) v0 y% q- Y7 P7 M! J1 t
We never did8 }' k" ?+ Y7 ]: z% v! ?
nor can we now
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leave our children . G& R4 _2 d2 E- H! i
and their children ' |& u0 d% s. j8 w: P+ o
settled down in theirs. Q$ k1 w& j5 s- V. E
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% F6 D4 j% v% E& v* L1 j8 w-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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