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ESCAPE by CAROLINE GILTINAN

First Line: OH, LET ME GO WHERE NO CHILDREN ARE!
Last Line: HELP ME TO GO WHERE NO CHILDREN ARE!
Subject(s): ESCAPES; STARS; FUGITIVES;

Oh! let me go where no children are!
Some where, is there a lonely star
Where I could see no children at all --
Never be near one, or hear him call?

To such a place I must go, must go,
Away from this hunger which tears me so;
I would escape from each little lad
So like the child that I never had.

Somewhere, oh, somewhere! one lonely star:
Help me to go where no children are!



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