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SONGS TO A.H.R.: 1. FREE by CALE YOUNG RICE

First Line: O WERE YOUR HEART NOT WIDE, DEAR
Last Line: BELOW ME OR ABOVE.
Subject(s): FREEDOM; HEARTS; LOVE; SOUL; LIBERTY;

O were your heart not wide, dear,
And were your soul not high,
And were not both so deep, too,
Deep as the April sky,
I should not find love freedom,
But know a need to range
All heaven and hell -- a prisoner
Pining for space and change.

But since there's depth within you
To hang my moon and stars,
Since I have not to beat vain wings
Against offending bars,
I find all other spaces
That lie @3beyond@1 our love
Are prisons -- all alluring worlds
Below me or above.



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