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Say no word |
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She watched as she waited |
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By the iron gate |
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Veiled in black brocade |
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Tom was all alone |
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She spoke soft but breathless, |
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He took the half-a-crown |
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And thought how strange |
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Long ago, she knew a man |
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Who sailed the seas |
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And gave her a daughter |
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Through the vanished years |
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Fate bestowed a lady's seat |
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She honoured it with grace |
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Hid the past and with it me |
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And now, she is everything to me |
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Though I was denied her tenderness |
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Years spent in gloom |
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I cried in my room |
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I believed I'd been quite deserted |
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But now that I find |
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She gave everything to me |
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Until it became quite impossible |
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Scorn upon scandal |
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Helpless to handle |
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She's bitterly breaking now |
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Why is my dream disturbed? |
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Cold cut the wind |
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We pitched as we tossed |
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From cobblestone to track |
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Along the old canal |
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Fierce came the frost |
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The stone changed to pasture |
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Could anyone survive? |
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Has anybody seen? |
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Long ago a fox found out, |
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They laid the captain dead at his masthead |
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Searching everywhere, |
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Questioning the wind and trees |
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I beat the empty air, |
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Knowing it has seen her face |
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And now, I'd give everything to know |
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Why my flesh and blood must suffer so |
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Turning and tossing |
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From river to crossing |
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Causing great confusion |
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If only she knew she was everything to me, |
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Alone now, somewhere, she's imploring me |
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Oh, please forgive me |
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I've been so thoughtless |
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She's bitterly breaking now |
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For, she is everything to me |
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Though I denied her tenderness |
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Years spent in gloom |
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I cried in my room |
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I believed I'd been quite deserted |
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But now that I find |
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She gave everything to me |
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Until it became quite impossible |
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Scorn upon scandal |
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Helpless to handle |
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I pray we are not too late... |
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Bleak rose the towers |
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The rain lashed the horses |
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We found the gate ajar |
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Her cloak lay in a heap |
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The captain's furled his sails |
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It comes as no surprise |
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She's no longer here. |
