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Coming here
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I measured the miles% o1 j! [/ G8 k, \1 V% A: {
set the clock's dark hands
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Days inched into years' Z) f! U2 t& C1 \4 Z( P- ^, _
I watched others
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We never did' D/ K; D5 S: W& j" E1 k" R3 ?
nor can we now. `5 _. F2 ? q9 w/ y
resettle in the old country
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and their children 9 k9 J0 B3 q& J* i- Y4 d1 g
settled down in theirs. C( \$ N% t+ V- j
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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