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Coming here
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Homesick
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+ R# l2 R, b9 @& ?. m! rset the clock's dark hands+ Z. J7 Z# O6 ?0 F; u9 {) q. y
with a view of returning to home ground
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Days inched into years2 v6 H! c9 i8 S' W! _
I watched others
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go and come back
# _' _0 j. j, L- g1 b+ tWe never did
7 {# M I5 Q' Y. ]* j( ^. Z7 u% xnor can we now
: X8 W5 |, s4 d' H% O% tresettle in the old country9 w' C) v7 B3 V" ~1 a$ O
leave our children
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settled down in theirs
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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