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Why does my homeland still linger within,
When since leaving a lifetime has passed,
What need now for me of country and kin,
With the distance between us so vast,
What magical spell now compels me,
To long for her faithful embrace,
And abandon this land that has kept me,
To return to that far distant place,
Does she now call me home to my duty,
To take back the life that she gave,
When young I was blind to her beauty,
But want no other place for my grave.
By Andrew Tovey