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> When I am alive I do not speak. > Anyone who wants to takes me captive and cuts off my head. > They bite my bare body > I do no harm to anyone unless they cut me first. > Then I soon make them cry.

> My home is not quiet but I am not loud. > The lord has meant us to journey together. > I am faster than he and sometimes stronger, > But he keeps on going for longer. > Sometimes I rest but he runs on. > For as long as I am alive I live in him. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">If we part from one another > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">It is I who will die.

> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">I am all on my own, > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Wounded by iron weapons and scarred by swords. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">I often see battle. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">I am tired of fighting. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">I do not expect to be allowed to retire from warfare > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Before I am completely done for. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">At the wall of the city, I am knocked about > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">And bitten again and again. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Hard edged things made by the blacksmith's hammer attack me. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Each time I wait for something worse. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">I have never been able to find a doctor who could make me better > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Or give me medicine made from herbs. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Instead the sword gashes all over me grow bigger day and night.

> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">I was abandoned by my mother and father. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">I wasn't yet breathing. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">A kind woman covered me with clothes, > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Kept me and looked after me, > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Cuddled me as close as if I had been her own child. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Under that covering I grew and grew. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">I was unkind to my adopted brothers and sisters. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">This lovely woman fed me > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">Until I was big enough to set out on my own. > <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18px;">She had fewer of her own dear sons and daughters because she did so.

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