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WHEN YOU ARE AWAY, by                    
First Line: I shall find a small green garden
Last Line: Can know what my singing means.
Subject(s): Love


I shall find a small green garden,
Far from the crowd on the broad highway,
And there I shall wait with my dreams of you
Forever or a day.

I shall make a little song
To sing to myself, alone at night,
But only the wind and the listening roses,
Will hear the notes aright.

And perhaps the wind from my little garden,
On puckered lips will whistle my tune,
And you, far out on the dusty highway,
Hearing, will come for me soon.

I shall wait in my green-walled garden,
Making small songs of my ribbons of dreams,
But only tiny and frightened children
Can know what my singing means.





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