The Emigrée Flashcards by Finn T

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There once was a country …

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…I left it as a child

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But my memory of it is…

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…sunlight-clear

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My original view, the…

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…bright, filled paperweight

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It may be sick…

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…with tyrants

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But I am branded with…

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…an impression of sunlight

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But I can’t get it off my tongue. …

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…it tastes like sunlight

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I have no…

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…password

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It lies down in front of me,…

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…docile as paper

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My city takes me…

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….dancing through the city of walls

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They accuse me of being…

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….dark in their free city

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They mutter death,…

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…and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight

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