Only Our Rivers Run Free

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    When apples still grow in 
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November,
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    when blossoms still bloom on 
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each tree,
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    when leaves are still green in 
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December,
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    it's then that our land will be
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 free.
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    I wander her hills and valleys
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 and still through my sorrow I see,
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    a land that has never known 
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freedom, only her rivers run free.

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    I drink to the death of her 
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manhood,
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    those men who would rather 
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have died
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    than to live in the cold chains
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 of bondage
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    to bring back their rights were
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 denied.
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    Where are you now, when we need 
you,
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    what burns where the flame used
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 to be?
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    Are you gone like the snows of 
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last winter, will only our rivers 
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run free?

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    How sweet is life but we're 
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crying, how mellow the wine that 
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were dry,
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    how fragrant the rose but it's 
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dying, how gentle the wind, but it 
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sighs.
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    What good is youth when it's 
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ageing, what joy is in eyes that 
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can see?
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    when there's sorrow in sunshine
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 and flowers,
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    and only our rivers run free.