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One And One As long as one and one make two And two divide to one I know that night will have the...

Othering If the sky were orange and the sun were blue; If swallows swam and flounder flew; If the stars shone...

Peter’s Christening The day that Peter Hanes was born An angel sounded Heaven’s horn; And every cloud that heard the blast Released...

Swimming To Heaven It wasn’t the same now when they returned to the sea. He’d spoiled everything, ruined them for the world; their...

The Falling Rain The rain falls down from a great, great height. It comes down through a leak in the sky. Through a...

The Last Wedding If wind were blue rushing like water through treetops, through knee-grasses, If I could more than glimpse it on a...

Vineman Outside my window on a wall A man’s not there, not there at all. But for some moments there he...

Eutychus Falls Asleep (From Acts 20:9-12) Now some of you perhaps have heard how Paul in Troas preached the Word; and how the...

Augustus The Ant Augustus was an army ant Whose hero was Ulysses Grant. He bore a host of battle scars And wore at...

Barbara, My Ladybug My Barbara was a ladybug. (A ladybug was she.) Her shell was bright tomato red. Her spots were numbered three....

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