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Watching The Needleboats At San Sabba

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I heard their young hearts crying     Loveward above the glancing oar     And heard the prairie grasses sighing:     No more, return no more!     O hearts, O sighing grasses,     Vainly your loveblown bannerets mourn!     No more will the wild wind that passes     Return, no more return.

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