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Susan Egan
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When I was a girl, I had a favourite story
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Of the meadowlark who lived where the rivers wind
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Her voice could match the angels' in its glory,
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But she was blind,
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The lark was blind.
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the king of the rivers took her to his palace,
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Where the walls were burnished bronze and golden braid,
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And he fed her fruit and nuts from an ivory chalice and he prayed
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"Sing for me, my meadowlark
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Sing for me of the silver morning.
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Set me free, my meadowlark
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And I'll buy you a priceless jewel,
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And cloth of brocade and crewel,
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And I'll love you for life if you will
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Sing for me."
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Than one day as the lark sang by the water
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The god of the sun heard her in his flight
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And her singing moved him so, he came and brought her
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The gift of sight,
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He gave her sight.
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And she opened her eyes to the shimmer and the splendour
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Of this beautiful young god, so proud and strong
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And he called to the lark in a voice both rough and tender,
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"Come along,
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Fly with me, my meadowlark,
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Fly with me on the silver morning.
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Past the sea where the dolphins bark,
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We will dance on the coral beaches,
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Make a feast of the plums and peaches,
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Just as far as your vision reaches,
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Fly with me."
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But the meadowlark said no,
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For the old king loved her so,
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She couldn't bear to wound his pride.
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So the sun god flew away and when the king came down that day,
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He found his meadowlark had died.
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Every time I heard that part I cried.
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And now I stand here, starry-eyed and stormy.
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Oh, just when I thought my heart was finally numb,
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A beautiful young man appears before me
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Singing "Come
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Oh, won't you come?"
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And what can I do if finally for the first time
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The one I'm burning for returns the glow?
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If love has come at last it's picked the worst time
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Still I know
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I've got to go.
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Fly away, meadowlark.
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Fly away in the silver morning.
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If I stay, I'll grow to curse the dark,
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So it's off where the days won't bind me.
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I know I leave wounds behind me,
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But I won't let tomorrow find me
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Back this way.
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Before my past once again can blind me,
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Fly away.
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And we won't wait to say goodbye,
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My beautiful young man and I.
Lindsay Mendez - "Meadowlark"
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