From pools of xylophone clear
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From caves of memory
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I saw the children at heart
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That we once used to be
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Borne on foaming seahorse herd
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Compose with trumpeting shell
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From lines across their hands
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A song as new as new moon
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As old as all the sands
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Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild
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Lost that child 'til mermaid
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Smiled
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Summoned by drum rolling surf
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As laughing fish compel
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The young boy woken in me
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By clanging diving bell
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Breakers pillow fight the shore
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She wriggles free in the tide
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I'm locked in adult land
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Back in the mirror she slides
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Waving with comb in hand
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I was lucky to remain beguiled
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Grown to child since mermaid
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Smiled
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Mermaid Smiled
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