Don’t cry in the darkness,
If you shall sleep in bearwood.
If you feel cold in the dark,
You shall need for fire a clearwood.
If you feel sad in loneliness,
You have need to burn a cheerwood.
If you shall be afraid in darkness,
You have no need to burn a tearwood.
Don’t care for anything in danger,
You need to fight in a fearwood.
Happiness is a game of two,
It will appear if they play in dearwood.
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