Settling Down

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Coming here
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I measured the miles
set the clock's dark hands
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$ `1 N( b1 H. _% E  H! V7 \- FDays inched into years
I watched others
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go and come back
8 s" e, l  u) f1 J8 XWe never did
) M0 n, I  M) Fnor can we now
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leave our children
and their children
settled down in theirs
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990