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Good evening, children Glad you made through the rain I am not long here now Just want to rearraange the house again There is another seat at the table He comes last But he his the honored first Yesterday tomorrow's die has cast And so it shall be This change is well intended And yet not intentional Let none by a brother be offended Our plans are merely provisional What are is what we became From the foundation of the earth The spark is not the flame And the fire's essence and worth Obedience is our only favor To the will that charms us to surrender Hear me then And meet now Andrew Another specimen Of a greater love The deep first planted Where no tree forgets And now I shall sleep In the peace of this embrace One last promise still to keep One last mountain For faith to take For nothing in our life is a mistake Except our blindness Of its coming And our weakness when its going Children are life's castles of men desires And love the steel that holds them plumb My quiver was never full The way I love them My heart was never empty The way I cared Let me taste your lips again And drink the rain That balms the flood of all my pains.
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