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Birds and tears

Ancient oaks so swiftly you fell

no silence wherein cruel, unthinking men dwell

your echoing woods now lay upon the ground

with birds and tears, the ripping down

now where shall they go to shelter

safe from the storm?

Cold the world of choking cities we build

barren and stripped, the land we conquer, kill

dark this greed of men I deplore

and where shall we go to shelter

safe from the storm?

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