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From 'An Invite, To Eternity' by John Clare (1793 - 1864) |
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Will you go with me? |
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Will you go with me? |
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Through valleys deep in shade |
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Of night and dark obscurity |
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Will you go with me? |
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The path has lost its way |
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The sun forgets the day |
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No life, no light to see |
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Will you go with me? |
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Will you follow me? |
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Where parents live and are forgot |
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Through their sad non-identity |
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Where sisters live and know us not |
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Will you go with me? |
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Where stones will turn to flooding streams |
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Where plains will rise like ocean waves |
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Where life will fade like visioned dreams |
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And mountains darken into caves |
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To live in death and be the same |
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Without this life or home or name |
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At once to be and not to be |
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We're wed to one eternity |
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The present mixed with reasons gone |
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And past and present are as one |
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Say maiden can thy life be led |
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To join the living with the dead |