Key: D major
Intro 1
F#
B
F#
B
D#m
F#
B
F#
C#
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D#m
B
F#
Verse 1
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By
throbbing waves long undermined,
D#m
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B
how no one knew.
C#
F#
B
F#
obedient to the wind,
C#
B
F#
Might see it from the mossy shore,
to severed float upon the lake,
B
D#m
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B
float with its crest of trees ad orned,
C#
D#m
B
F#
their pastime take.
C#
B
F#
Food, shelter, safety, there they fight
Their berries ripen, flowerbeds bloom
B
C#
B
The insects live their lives and die
C#
F#
B
F#
B
C#sus4
in size a tiny room
B
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B
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B
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B
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B
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And thus, through many seas and space
This little island may survive
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D#m
But nature, though we
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B
mark her not,
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C#
B
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Will take away, may cease to give
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B
Perchance when you are
Upon some vacant sunny day
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F#
D#m
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B
Without an object, hope or fear
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The isle is passed away
B
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C#
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B
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Buried beneath the glittering lake
Its place no longer to be found
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B
Yet the lost fragments shall re main
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B
C#
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B
F#
To fertilize some oth er ground
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B D#m C# C#sus4
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