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Audio and Video Music:
The Lake.
By Jahzzar.
Performed by Jahzzar
at the Free
Music Archive
under an Attribution-
ShareAlike
license.
Eight-year-olds, of course, are not yet nine.
Instead, they try to act like they are ten,
Growing up more rapidly than Time
Has time to pass more patiently with them.
They'll slow down, I know. But who knows when?
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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