| As blessed hands once hid a blessed face from sight
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| And wept an evening over me
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| A good beginning
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| For an endless night
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| A good beginning
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| For an endless night
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| Can’t hobbled words be made to rhyme?
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| With thoughtful reach of heart to take from killing time
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| A song so small
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| That endless night sweet evening’s kiss recall?
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| And didn’t kind and learned hands once write on broken bits of clay?
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| Those shards
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| That from a world of bliss did fall a world away?
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| And writing make a homely scroll to wear
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| That ruin’s children, fathered by mistake
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| Might find their good beginning there and sing
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| A song so small
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| That endless night sweet evenings kiss recall?
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| As stars that shine unseen
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| To call the day their home
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| And make no thieving visit there
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| But live where songs come from
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| With open-throated arms
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| To hold you singing God’s own song
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| Who writes a song must love to hear it sung
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| And gentle hope has made my song a reckless one
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| And gentle hope has made my song a reckless one
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| Avenging angels dressed me up in pants too big
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| And sent me beltless out to dance a clownish jig
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| That men might look at me and pray for blindness
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| For gentle hope has made me call those furies kindness
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| That send a gelded lover out to sing
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| Though not a man
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| I’d be a king for Anne
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| And though for endless night
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| I am a monstrous metaphor
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| What lover of the light could love you more?
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| As stars that shine unseen
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| To call the day their home
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| And make no thieving visit there
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| But live where songs come from
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| With open-throated arms
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| To hold you singing God’s own song
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| Who writes a song must love to hear it sung
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| And gentle hope has made my song a reckless one
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| And gentle hope has made my song a reckless one
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| Can’t hobbled words be made to rhyme
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| With thoughtful reach of heart to take from killing time
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| A song so small
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| That endless night sweet evening’s kiss recall and say
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| For Anne Marie I’d be a day
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| I’d be a day
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| I’d be a day |