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BIARTEY'S SPINNING SONG, FR. THE RIDING TO LITHEND by GORDON BOTTOMLEY

First Line: THEY GO BY THREE
Last Line: THE CORE SLIPS OUT.
Subject(s): SPINNING;

THEY go by three
And the moon shivers;
The tired waves flee,
The hidden rivers
Also flee.

I take three strands;
There is one for her,
One for my hands,
And one to stir
For another's hands.

I twine them thinner,
The dead wool doubts;
The outer is inner
The core slips out.



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