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| How many artificial | |||
| banks before | |||
| we reach the | |||
| port What reward | |||
| for forgiveness If | |||
| the water doesn’t get | |||
| < back to poetry titles | too high Either | ||
| < back to image | separately or | ||
| < back to giornata.net | together The band | ||
| plays instruments | |||
| made from the | |||
| carcasses of dead | |||
| animals How fair | |||
| thou art We’ll have | |||
| that last waltz I’ll | |||
| be back in | |||
| our ruined city | |||
| Mine own orchard | |||
| have I not kept | |||
| In that small | |||
| town to which we’ll | |||
| never return I’ll | |||
| dance no more ‘til | |||
| I’ve had a | |||
| drink In the base | |||
| ment of the Lodge But | |||
| you won’t find | |||
| me in the orchard come | |||
| summer On a cold | |||
| dark night Oh Danny | |||
| boy Amazing | |||
| grace Diddy | |||
| wah diddy We were | |||
| young when we left | |||
| home The tattered | |||
| streamers hung dusty | |||
| and limp The flaking | |||
| tile Gonna lay | |||
| down my burden | |||
| Your rod and your | |||
| staff so hard and | |||
| strong Come all ye | |||
| young men and lay me | |||
| down We were young when | |||
| we left home I walked | |||
| all night I was young | |||
| when I left home Ribs | |||
| spines stomachs | |||
| bladders How long the | |||
| night I’ll meet you | |||
| there The night | |||
| time is the night | |||
| time I don’t know what | |||
| killed those deer | |||
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