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A Meadow Tragedy

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Heres a meadow full of sunshine      Ripe grasses lush and high;      Theres a reaper on the roadway,      And a lark hangs in the sky.      Theres a nest of love enclosing      Three little beaks that cry;      The reapers in the meadow      And a lark hangs in the sky.      Heres a mead all full of summer,      And tragedy goes by      With a knife amongst the grasses,      And a song up in the sky.

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