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We told our tales as we
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sat under mornin's sleepy
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sky
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With all the colours of the
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sunrise shining in our
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eyes
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One, then another with a
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story of yesterday's
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lives
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or of a lover who had
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gone in a moment of
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strife
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No thought of sleep ever
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dwells upon the wise man's
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mind
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Some task or audience
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stealing every moment of his
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time
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Thus we have learned to live while
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mortal man lies waiting to
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die
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How can we do what must be
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done in just one short
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life?
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And if you ask, then you should
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know, if you still doubt you should be
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told, it was not we that made it
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so, it was by those who went
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before...
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And there you sit tomorrow's
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child, so full of love so full of
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life, but you must rise to meet the
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day, lest you become another
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tale, and there you sit tomorrow's