As children, we would say our forevers
Beneath the sun; cradled by its warmness.
Each child is as another to a child;
Rank or station does not thwart endeavours
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He died upon the cross tonight,
As God reclaimed his mortal son
The world around was stripped of light.
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An old woman once told me
That she’d met Thomas Hardy
When she was just a nipper.
I confessed myself impressed
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