In a sudden moment
A calmness descends
And the war with Winter is assuaged,
The waves cease to crash
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Laughter is the best medicine they say
Worth more than any wealth
Laughter is a wonderful tonic
Not available on the National Health
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Drizzle spattered the dark Tyne
Running its evening course between waterside lights
Jetties and ferry landings
The last place of safety before the vast North Sea
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We breasted the rise and plotted our course
Along stony paths amongst yellow gorse
The sea so vast and glinting its eye
Shimmering backcloth to the herring gull's cry
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Clouds
The rolling clouds gather overhead
Masking the sun from view
What strength those clouds must have
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The grass seemed reborn in it's green
Having been warmed and defrosted
By the midday sun and now in a scene
That the ice no longer accosted
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I look over a wall
At horses in this cloudy-sky spot
At my sides my arms uncertainly fall
I don't know whether to like horses or not;
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It's all part of the same thing
That's what you have to understand
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Are you happy now
That your fire has eaten up the sky?
That you have done your deed
And left a tree to die,
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