Circle Game
Yesterday a child come out to wonder Caught a dragon fly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star
And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams Words like when you’re older must appease him And promises of someday make his dreams Six-teen springs and six-teen summers gone now
Cart-wheels turn to car-wheels through the town And they tell him take you're time it won’t belong now Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true There's be new dreams may be better dreams and plenty Before the last revolving year is through
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