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By The Babe Unborn

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If trees were tall and grasses short,     As in some crazy tale,     If here and there a sea were blue     Beyond the breaking pale,     If a fixed fire hung in the air     To warm me one day through,     If deep green hair grew on great hills,     I know what I should do.     In dark I lie: dreaming that there     Are great eyes cold or kind,     And twisted streets and silent doors,     And living men behind.     Let storm-clouds come: better an hour,     And leave to weep and fight,     Than all the ages I have ruled     The empires of the night.     I think that if they gave me leave     Within that world to stand,     I would be good through all the day     I spent in fairyland.     They should not hear a word from me     Of selfishness or scorn,     If only I could find the door,     If only I were born.

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