[Wendy:] Hi
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Trader
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Trader sailed a jeweled crown
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Humanity rowed the way
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Exploring to command more land
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Scheming how to rule the waves.
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Trader spied a virgin plain
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And named it for velvet robes
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Wrote home declaring,
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"There's a place
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Where totally folks are free
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(Happily completely)
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Nourishment fills the prairies and the hillsides
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And animals stalk the mountains and the seaside
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And fish abound the lakes and birds the skies
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Signed sincerely."
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Trader found the jeweled land
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Was occupied before he came
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By humans of a second look
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Who couldn't even write their names shame
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Trader said they're not as good
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As folks who wear velvet robes
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Wrote home again and asked, "Please help
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Their breasts I see; they're not like me
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Banish them from our prairies and our hillsides
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Clear them from our mountains and our seaside
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I want them off our lakes so please reply
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Signed sincerely."
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Trader he got the crown okay
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Cleared humanity from his way
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He civilized all he saw
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Making changes every single day say
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Shops sprang over the prairies and the hillsides
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Then roads cut through the mountains to the seaside
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The other kind fled to hide, by and by,
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And so sincerely
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Cried.
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Making it softly
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Like the evening sea, trying to be
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Making it go
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Creating it gently
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Like a morning breeze, a life of ease
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Eyes that see
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Beyond tomorrow, through to the time without hours
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Passing the Eden of Flowers
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Reason to live.
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Embracing together
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Like the merging streams, crying dreams
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Making it full
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Begging intently
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For a slight reprieve, a night of ease
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Hands to touch
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Beyond the sorrow, on to the force without power
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Piercing the crust of the tower
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Reason to live.
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Hoping
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Like a budding rose, humbling shows
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Making it.
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Struggling lonely
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Like a desert field, break the seal, make it real
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Ears to hear
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Beyond the showers, on to the suns of tomorrows
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Burning the flesh of all sorrows
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Reason to live.
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Reason to continue
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Reason to go on
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Reason to live
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Reason to live
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Reason to live
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The Trader
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