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Folk Song to “Wayfarin’ Stranger”

Refrain: I called you early in the morning; I called at noon; I called at three. And now the day falls toward the gloaming – if I come soon, will you be free? 1. Will you come out for just an hour to walk with me beneath the trees? I found you hiding in your…

December 2, 2013 in Soul's Knowledge.

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I suffer death
his hard blue sting
his theft of breath
his hammering -

Yet though worlds fade
before my eyes
I'm not thus made
a thing that dies.

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