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He
gazed at me with his rheumy eyes,
‘You
think that you’re getting old!
You’ll
not go travel that lonely valley
Unt..
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The
Convent at Le Cap Fureur
Lies
empty, by the sea,
Its
ancient walls a grim despair
Of
anonymity,
No
more the chants of singing..
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Ben
Sanders sat in his final days
By
his cottage, up on the bluff,
He’d
spent his life as a rover, and
He
said, ‘I can&rs..
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The
news came rustling through the trees
As
I tethered the horse’s head,
It
came with a gentle sigh on the breeze,
‘The
L..
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The
Press surrounded the boarding house
That
was kept by Mary Toft,
Her
sailor man was Rickety Dan
Who
was hidden, up in the loft.
..
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He
lay awake in his narrow bed
And
opened his bedside drawer,
Then
fumbled around until he’d found
The
thing he was looking for..
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I
was born and bred in a valley,
It
was all that I ever knew,
The
cows grazed out in the pasture and
The
cottages were few.
I
gre..
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There’s
a blank sheet of paper before me,
It’s
as blank as our lives have become,
But
nothing’s been said, though the ..
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The
little boy with the shining eyes
Was
skipping along the street,
They
said that he was autistic, that
He
never would learn to spea..
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The
Moon was rising, over the hill
Along
with the evening star,
They
lit the lane he was walking, ‘til
He
could see the lights..
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