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Have you ever sailed across dry land, with a wooden leg and a hook for a hand,
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I've written lots of stories of people I have known. I've told of things that really cannot be.
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Of those among mankind I most admire Are such who’ve overcome the saddest grief,
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It isn’t love that blinds man’s eyes when peering at the sun, But a brilliance that’s too radiant to see.
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I touched your hands and felt the Mother Earth
who, from her richest loam, gave them their birth.
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I love to see the colors of the leaves That fall has painted brightly on the trees.
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Behold what lies a pen will tell:
That tortured souls are doing well,
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My grandson came to live with us today.
It costs a lot to have an extra boy.
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My bathtub is a sea on which I float
my birthday toy, a brightly colored boat.
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A baby chick is
An awful choice
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When insects play do they hide and seek?
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They caught Tom Dooley in my backyard when I
was only ten.
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I built a concrete castle,
made from sugar and ice cream;
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When you go to the dentist
Do you get a chill?
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You Don’t Have To Die to be famous.
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I found a book of wisdom
And read it through and through
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I’ve heard the ocean call to me, as waves crash on the shore.
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Have you ever sailed across dry land,
with a wooden leg and a hook for a hand,
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At night my bed's a magic ship
that sails the Midnight Sea.
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They say that there will never be A poem lovely as a tree.
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I’ll whisper you a secret of where my Love is hidden.
Being a comforter, it abides within me, and without.
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The preacher announced with a kindly voice
the children in the first row
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Whose clothes are these on floor and chair?
He’s sleeping in the bedroom there
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Have you heard the leaves piled on the ground
on a wet November day?
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This ode goes to the bumblebee
to salute his tenacity
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In a land where the sun’s always shining, On an isle where young hearts should be free,
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On the dusty slopes where there's still cowpokes, where there's yet more sky than land, In the Big Sky State, back in thirty-eight, they were hiring at Fort Peck Dam.
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Once, in the twilight of my years,
There came a stranger selling tears.
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Mother Nature, perhaps for a jape, Made Neanderthal man look much like an ape.
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Where Have You Gone, Danny, dear Danny? I’ve missed you since you’ve gone away.
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When I'm all alone in my reverie, I often still recall The things we children did for fun, and my favorite of them all.
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f I could invent a flower,
If I could select its hue,
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The world looks great to a boy of eight; It's made of dreams and wishin'.
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There's something grandma used to do That always made me smile.
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