Settling Down

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Coming here
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4 e4 a# e, f- u2 B( iHomesick
I measured the miles
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Days inched into years
I watched others
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go and come back
We never did
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resettle in the old country
8 ^3 d2 L7 s. U+ p. Nleave our children
and their children
$ \4 v' i- V7 G& |settled down in theirs
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9 C* Q2 s: q$ K. H7 @# P-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990