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Coming here
# [. O' A/ U+ L7 lSettling down
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Homesick% }' o- A7 a! _* _, H
I measured the miles
5 T+ e7 X9 U$ ^1 ]set the clock's dark hands5 k5 U4 H: @' m$ }
with a view of returning to home ground
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9 a' E6 o$ s# g# RDays inched into years
4 h4 o* _; K/ h: T: yI watched others: t: Y e. |: d7 [! W3 c; n
come and go back/ _ I; U+ ~6 R2 w! t
go and come back9 _) U2 {! Y3 j% b A* ~ Q
We never did
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resettle in the old country
' L0 i) n. F. N7 k% u' ?leave our children - D0 H. d: Q& Y* u
and their children 0 }, [& I s) ?. y/ R g
settled down in theirs$ z5 q) }1 H; _
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1 g2 {% p" ~. m7 Z' U-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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