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I	A
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Scene A wayside shrine in France	B
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Persons Celeste Pierre a Cloud	C
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Celeste gazing at the solitary white Cloud	C
I wonder what your thoughts are little Cloud	C
Up in the sky so lonely and so proud	C
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Cloud Not proud dear maiden lonely if you will	D
Long have I watched you sitting there so still	D
Before that little shrine beside the way	E
And wondered where your thoughts might be astray	E
Your knitting lying idle on your knees	F
And worse than idle like Penelope's	F
Working its own undoing	G
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Celeste picks up her knitting Who was she	H
Saints What a knot Who was Penelope	H
What happened to her knitting Tell me Cloud	C
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Cloud She was a Queen she wove her husband's shroud	C
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Celeste drops the knitting	G
His shroud	C
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Cloud There there 'Twas only an excuse	F
To put her lovers off a wifely ruse	F
Bidding them bide till it was finished she	H
Each night the web unravelled secretly	H
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Celeste He came home safe	I
Cloud If I remember right	J
It was the lovers needed shrouds that night	J
It is an old old tale I heard it through	K
A Wind whose ancestor it was that blew	K
Ulysses' ship across the purple sea	H
Back to his people and Penelope	H
We Clouds pick up strange tales as far and wide	L
And to and fro above the world we ride	L
Across uncharted seas upon the swell	M
Of viewless waves and tides invisible	N
Freighted with friendly flood or forked flame	O
Knowing not whither bound nor whence we came	O
Now drifting lonely now a company	H
Of pond'rous galleons	F
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Celeste Oft times I see	H
A Cloud as by some playful fancy stirred	P
Take likeness of a monstrous beast or bird	P
Or some fantastic fish as though 'twere clay	E
Moulded by unseen hands	F
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Cloud Then tell me pray	E
What I resemble now	Q
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Celeste I scarcely know	R
But had you asked a little while ago	R
I should have said a camel then your hump	S
Dissolved and you became a gosling plump	S
Downy and white and warm	T
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Cloud What Warm up here	U
Ten thousand feet above the earth	V
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Celeste Oh dear	W
What am I thinking of Of course I know	R
How cold it is Pierre has told me so	R
A thousand times	F
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Cloud And who is this Pierre	X
That tells you all the secrets of the air	X
How came he to such frigid heights to soar	Y
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Celeste Pierre's my He is in the Flying Corps	Y
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Cloud Ah now I understand And he's away	E
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Celeste He left at dawn where for he would not say	E
Telling me only 'twas a bombing raid	Z
Somewhere My God What's that	A2
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Cloud What little maid	Z
Celeste pointing That over there beyond the wooded crest	B2
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Cloud Only a skylark dropping to her nest	B2
Her mate is hov'ring somewhere near I heard	P
His tremulous song of love	C2
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Celeste That was no bird	P
Drops upon her knees	F
O Mary Blessed Mother Hear my prayer	X
That one that fell grant it was not Pierre	X
Here is the cross my mother gave me I	A
Will burn the longest candle it will buy	A
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Cloud Courage my child Your prayer will not be vain	D2
Who guards the lark will guide your lover's plane	D2
The West Wind's calling I must go Hark There	X
He sings again Le bon Dieu garde ma chere	X
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II	A
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Pierre I made a perfect landing over there	X
Behind the church	E2
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Celeste The Virgin heard my prayer	X
Now I must burn the candle that I vowed	C
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Pierre Then 'twas our Blessed Lady sent that Cloud	C
That saved me when the Boche came up behind	F2
I made a lightning turn only to find	F2
The Boche on top of me It seemed a kind	F2
Of miracle to see that Cloud I swear	X
A moment past the sky was everywhere	X
As clear as clear there was no Cloud in sight	J
It looked to me floating there calm and white	J
Like a great mother hen and I a chick	G2
She seemed to call me and I scurried quick	G2
Behind her wing That spoiled the Boche's game	O
And gave me time to turn and take good aim	O
I emptied my last drum and saw him drop	H2
Ten thousand feet in flames	F
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Celeste shuddering Stop Pierre stop	H2
Maybe a girl is waiting for him too	K
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Pierre 'Twas either him or me Celeste	B2
Thank God not you	K
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Pierre pointing to the church Come let us burn the candle that	A2
you vowed	C
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Celeste Two candles	F
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Pierre Who's the other for	X
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Celeste The Cloud	C

Oliver Herford

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