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Coming here
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0 g3 B9 `; |2 H1 o4 W" v5 Twas easier for you
` Y2 U' L6 U+ r l% H, sHomesick
8 f: I3 z' b8 F+ X8 [I measured the miles
6 ]2 d. V7 R9 C6 y8 [# ~: M5 Mset the clock's dark hands+ ^; A/ ]* H s6 k9 d" G
with a view of returning to home ground
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7 E8 Q! _5 x8 m# ]9 uDays inched into years' I" O5 _( k# Q' x
I watched others
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& E O' B7 p! ?: _% f, c8 G+ Zgo and come back$ `( Z4 d" p: K% b3 D' ?4 c! H% q
We never did9 K9 Y2 O: B1 k0 G# v9 P+ W. C
nor can we now6 l3 l0 d. ?& Q+ P) G3 d4 j
resettle in the old country
' H7 y6 z" s% w$ Jleave our children # t5 O* S8 m7 ?1 ^
and their children 5 n- ]& T8 k; E- }6 Z
settled down in theirs
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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