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THERE IS AN OLD CITY by KARL BULCKE

First Line: AN OLD TOWN LIES AFAR
Last Line: SHUT IN MY BOYHOOD'S YEARS. ...
Subject(s): CHILDHOOD MEMORIES;

AN old town lies afar
From where the great towns be;
The storm roars over the town;
Beside it thunders the sea.

There is an ancient house
Long locked the gate has been.
On its gray walls the trembling
Blades of the grass are green.

There is a lonely heart,
Strange, full of fears,
That town and that house and that heart
Shut in my boyhood's years. ...



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