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=.,,,,,,,, The River That'S Our River Makes A ,,,,,,,,.=
.,,,,,,,,, Large Bend Like A Scooping Hand And A ,,,,,,,,,.
=.,,,,,,,, Decent Days Travel North From That ,,,,,,,,.=
:=.,,,,,,, Stands Our House In The Middle Of A ,,,,,,,.=:
$:=.,,,,,, Forgotten Apple Orchard. Our House Is ,,,,,,.=:$
¤$:=.,,,,, Built Of Dark Clay And Abandoned By A ,,,,,.=:$¤
#¤$:=.,,,, Stranger. The Window Has No Glass But ,,,,.=:$¤#
##¤$:=.,,, Instead Steel Bars To Keep The Animals ,,,.=:$¤##
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###¤$:=.,, Around The House Is A Thick, Thick ,,.=:$¤###
##¤$:=.,,, Brush Of Ferns And Bushes. There Live ,,,.=:$¤##
#¤$:=.,,,, The Animals That We Fight To Keep Away, ,,,,.=:$¤#
¤$:=.,,,,, For They Speak To Us To Join Them In ,,,,,.=:$¤
$:=.,,,,,, The Luscious Caves Below Ground. They ,,,,,,.=:$
:=.,,,,,,, Mean No Harm But It Is Not In Our Best ,,,,,,,.=:
=.,,,,,,,, Interest To Do So. There Is Important ,,,,,,,,.=
.,,,,,,,,, Work That Needs To Be Done, And It Cant ,,,,,,,,,.
=.,,,,,,,, Be Done By Animals. (Father Says This.) ,,,,,,,,.=
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$:=.,,,,,, Every Morning Our Father Clears The ,,,,,,.=:$
¤$:=.,,,,, Ferns And Uproots The Bushes Only For ,,,,,.=:$¤
#¤$:=.,,,, Them To Grow Back Each Night. Their ,,,,.=:$¤#
##¤$:=.,,, Leaves Are Teal, White And Yellow, Some ,,,.=:$¤##
###¤$:=.,, Even The Color Of Wine. They Have Lilac ,,.=:$¤###
####¤$:=., Flowers And In The Morning They Are Wet ,.=:$¤####
###¤$:=.,, With Dew. ,,.=:$¤###
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#¤$:=.,,,, Father Is Away During The Day Doing ,,,,.=:$¤#
¤$:=.,,,,, Important Things Elsewhere. He Is Weary ,,,,,.=:$¤
$:=.,,,,,, When He Returns Home, Each Day More So ,,,,,,.=:$
:=.,,,,,,, Than The Next. We Learn To Cook For Him ,,,,,,,.=:
=.,,,,,,,, So That He Does Not Have To. We Tend To ,,,,,,,,.=
.,,,,,,,,, His Clothes. ,,,,,,,,,.
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:=.,,,,,,, Suddenly The Dense Bushwork Is Mirrored ,,,,,,,.=:
$:=.,,,,,, Inside. Stems And Leaves Appear Close ,,,,,,.=:$
¤$:=.,,,,, To The Walls And Far From The Light. We ,,,,,.=:$¤
#¤$:=.,,,, Are Glad, For The Flowers Are Beautiful ,,,,.=:$¤#
##¤$:=.,,, And Smell Good, And There Is Little ,,,.=:$¤##
###¤$:=.,, Decoration In Our House. But When ,,.=:$¤###
####¤$:=., Father Comes Home He Is Angry And Cuts ,.=:$¤####
###¤$:=.,, Them All Down In A Frenzy. We Are ,,.=:$¤###
##¤$:=.,,, Scared Of Him Then. ,,,.=:$¤##
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¤$:=.,,,,, We Are Then Tasked With Removing Any ,,,,,.=:$¤
$:=.,,,,,, Indoor Plant We See. But They Are So ,,,,,,.=:$
:=.,,,,,,, Beautiful! We Wait Just Until Father ,,,,,,,.=:
=.,,,,,,,, Comes Home And Until Then We Enjoy ,,,,,,,,.=
.,,,,,,,,, Them. Sometimes An Animal Will Sneak In ,,,,,,,,,.
=.,,,,,,,, But We Always Shoo Them Out. With Fresh ,,,,,,,,.=
:=.,,,,,,, Cut Flowers Thrown Right Outside The ,,,,,,,.=:
$:=.,,,,,, House He Suspects And Resents Our ,,,,,,.=:$
¤$:=.,,,,, Inaction. But He Doesn'T Have The ,,,,,.=:$¤
#¤$:=.,,,, Energy To Scold Us. He Weakens Quickly. ,,,,.=:$¤#
##¤$:=.,,, It Is Not Long Before He Is Still Tired ,,,.=:$¤##
###¤$:=.,, Even In The Morning And Must ,,.=:$¤###
####¤$:=., Reluctantly Leave The Outdoor Weed ,.=:$¤####
###¤$:=.,, Cutting To Us As Well, Untrusting That ,,.=:$¤###
##¤$:=.,,, We Will Carry It Out. ,,,.=:$¤##
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¤$:=.,,,,, Now He Leaves As Soon As He'S Awake And ,,,,,.=:$¤
$:=.,,,,,, Falls Asleep As Soon As He Returns. We ,,,,,,.=:$
:=.,,,,,,, Are Left To Care For Us And The House ,,,,,,,.=:
=.,,,,,,,, And The Orchard. But It Is Hard And We ,,,,,,,,.=
.,,,,,,,,, Are Distracted. We Are Not As ,,,,,,,,,.
=.,,,,,,,, Persistent As Father And Quickly Fall ,,,,,,,,.=
:=.,,,,,,, Behind In Our Duties. ,,,,,,,.=:
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