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Coming here
# `- Z h' P: o5 B! wSettling down
% b: L' S6 h1 R# ]/ lwas easier for you
8 y$ X4 E" L/ UHomesick
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set the clock's dark hands
0 s1 \. l0 {2 h# S: nwith a view of returning to home ground% @2 m5 I) _: Z! k1 z
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Days inched into years$ i' t) I% ]7 C" Y8 s: L
I watched others, l7 d6 _, {6 q0 P r+ r9 `7 |- z+ F
come and go back
. b; i& a9 P( Ggo and come back- v5 p3 H. x" T
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resettle in the old country
, T, T3 W: n2 J0 W oleave our children 0 ?7 F# G2 j* _0 n1 j
and their children
4 |: ~# \7 b2 c+ Q" isettled down in theirs
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-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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