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The brook at the end of the gardenWould gurgle and gush through the weeds,Would ripple and plash in the morning sunLike a spirit with spiritual needs,..
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They said that he lived in the tunnelThat burrowed right into the hill,That once saw a belching funnelOf sulphur and black clouds spill,The train on t..
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He got to the top of the mountainAnd he saw the shadow of God,Then he heard it mutter, and shouting‘Will you heed the reck of the rod.’The..
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They said that the ocean was risingIt would soon overwhelm the land,While I lived down on the valley floorBelow the sea and the sand,The only thing th..
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Elizabeth Warr was the woman next door,They called her a witch and a hag,We lived in a lane that was called ‘Little Payne’Though what ther..
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I didn’t think I’d be affected,I thought I could just be aware,When she left me for another manI thought I could sit and stare,Could sit a..
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The Queen stepped ahead of the gun carriageThat bore the country’s king,He’d died, they said, in the early hoursIn the palace’s east..
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She turned up here on my doorstepCompletely out of the blue,She didn’t say where she was coming fromOr where she was going to,She carried a sing..
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I’d known him since we were boys at schoolSo I let him in to the flat,He wasn’t known for playing the fool,I knew him better than that,But..
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He went ashore with the duty crewThe moment they got their leave,And headed home for his two by twoAnd his waiting Genevieve,He wore his official navy..
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