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Universal Embrace

Silver teardrops in the shadows

on the cheeks of sleeping girls,

weeping even in their dreamlife

for the wasting of the world.

  Hark,oh Hark ye to the trumpets

from the founding Fathers' hour

Lift your hands and lift your heads up

to the great eternal power.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006




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