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I
sat all night in the charnel house
With
a rag held over my face,
The
smell down there was infernal
But
I was guarding my wife&rsquo..
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This
year that creeps up on the clock
Has
made no friend in me,
It
holds the seeds of all that may
Go
wrong, adversity.
It
dr..
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I
had met Hans down in Frankfurt
At
the rebuilt Opera House,
We
were there to hear Mendelssohn,
Not
really my first choice,
&lsquo..
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When
the New Year was approaching
There
were planets in a line
That
they said was some dark portent
Of
events, long lost in time,
..
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It
was twenty seven years since he
Had
been back to the farm,
Where
he’d played out in the cornfield there
With
Jenny, Jim and ..
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The
day was bleak and the Tor was steep
As
I walked up to the crest,
The
tower of St. Michael’s Church stood gaunt
And
I stared..
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When
we were numbered as old men
To
peak, at three score years and ten,
God
thought to have contained our pride,
As
all our knowledge..
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When
the Gao Gao clan lost its favourite son
In
a coal disaster in the mines of Shandong,
He
could not be buried in the family plot
Fo..
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My
girl went out on a Saturday night
They
said that she was alone,
I’d
said, ‘We’ll meet at the Cineplex,’
But..
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He
peered on out at the darkening sky,
Pulled
out the watch from its fob,
Traced
his finger across the hand
That
would time his nefar..
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