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WE WANT TO KNOW by DOUGLAS MALLOCH

First Line: PERHAPS SOMETIME WE NEED NO LONGER WONDER
Last Line: WE WANT TO KNOW.

Perhaps sometime we need no longer wonder
If others love us, love or never care;
Perhaps sometime through life we need not blunder,
So often fail to find the sweetness there.
So many days we want a little kindness,
When unencouraged up the hill we go;
So many days we walk the way in blindness --
We want to know.

Perhaps sometime the loved shall hear the lover,
Across the void perhaps a voice will call;
Perhaps sometime our own hearts shall discover
That there are those around us, after all.
So many days so many clouds above us,
So many lonely ways we have to go;
O you who love, but never say you love us,
We want to know.



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