Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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throbbing waves long undermined,
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how no one knew.
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obedient to the wind,
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Might see it from the mossy shore,
to severed float upon the lake,
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float with its crest of trees ad orned,
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their pastime take.
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Food, shelter, safety, there they fight
Their berries ripen, flowerbeds bloom
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The insects live their lives and die
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in size a tiny room
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And thus, through many seas and space
This little island may survive
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But nature, though we
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mark her not,
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Will take away, may cease to give
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Perchance when you are
Upon some vacant sunny day
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Without an object, hope or fear
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The isle is passed away
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Buried beneath the glittering lake
Its place no longer to be found
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Yet the lost fragments shall re main
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To fertilize some other ground
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ChordsC F Am G Gsus4
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