Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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There was a saviour rarer than radium,
Commoner than water,
crueler than truth.
Children kept from the sun,
assembled at his tongue,
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of his keyless smiles.
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The voice of children says from a lost wilderness there
was calm to be done in his safe unrest.
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When hindering man hurt, man, animal or bird,
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we hid our fears in that murdering breath.
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Silence, silence to do when
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earth grew loud in lairs
There was glory to hear in
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Under his downy arm
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you sighed as he struck.
Oh, you who could not cry onto
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put a tear for joy in the unearthly flood,
and laid your cheek against a
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cloud -formed shell.
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there is only yourself and myself,
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Two proud black brothers cry,
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To this inhospitable hollow year.
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one lean sigh,
and fire, neighbor,
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but wailed and nested in the sky -blue wall.
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Now break a giant tear
for the little -known fall,
for the drooping of homes that
did not nurse our bones,
brave deaths of only ones
but never found.
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Now see alone in us our own true strangers
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dust ride through the doors of
our unentered house.
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Exiled in us we arouse the soft,
and rough love that breaks all rocks.
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