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ON THE EMBANKMENT
Amist on the darkened river
Falls: in the rippled stream
The yellow lights shake and quiver,
The red lights quiver and gleam.
Falls: in the rippled stream
The yellow lights shake and quiver,
The red lights quiver and gleam.
For us in the maze of error,
More weak than the wind-swept foam,
The lights in the stream's dark mirror
Seem lights of a perfect home.
More weak than the wind-swept foam,
The lights in the stream's dark mirror
Seem lights of a perfect home.
The tranquil river is going
Down to the tranquil sea,
And ah that its waves were flowing
Silently over me!
Down to the tranquil sea,
And ah that its waves were flowing
Silently over me!
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