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The Ballad of Perkin Warbeck
Copyright 2002 by Mary Devlin

The sun shall rise; the mountains touch the sky;
The rain shall fall; you'll see it but not I;
The heart shall love, the soul know joy and pain,
You'll feel its warmth; I won't feel aught again;
From mountains to the shore
Life calls for death once more.

The leaves shall fall, the trees go stark and bare,
And yet in spring, new buds are everywhere;
Sometimes I feel that I've been here before;
If this be true, there must be something more.
From mountains to the shore
Life calls for death once more.

I've seen the world; I've traveled everywhere;
And now it seems my journey shall end here.
Is there a God? I sometimes wonder why:
If God be love, can she be aught but I?
When hills become the sea,
Will they remember me?
From mountains to the shore
Life calls for death once more.

[This message has been edited by blakeh (edited 09-02-2002).]