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Coming here) P8 K# \$ L; @$ p3 C
Settling down
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Homesick
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set the clock's dark hands9 R/ [* m; X/ i) W5 H6 `+ q
with a view of returning to home ground
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Days inched into years
0 I, D6 C: l# G$ W: cI watched others
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We never did' M( K& K+ _" r+ Q2 ?4 Z
nor can we now
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leave our children
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settled down in theirs$ `7 C N' k3 f+ A. s
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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