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Coming here
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Homesick
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set the clock's dark hands
" a& ]* L' |( h% Zwith a view of returning to home ground" i2 ~( [6 q! P# l
4 V7 ]7 v0 R+ zDays inched into years* u8 h( N1 B) y8 h4 u W
I watched others
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go and come back$ @' `- c6 u& O" i
We never did" |- \9 E+ B; p
nor can we now/ }8 O! u D, p# f3 i. d4 H5 p
resettle in the old country8 U6 i* A! z$ y- }6 J" I* g
leave our children ) {5 c' c: A& H- ~7 Y
and their children : R4 L+ E, c( g5 H+ O$ I
settled down in theirs
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0 K6 @8 h7 W0 Z; W B$ k-----Margaret Saunders, in Bridging the Gap, 1990 |
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