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Stretched and fretted With no filigree A voice above The wedded voices Hear me Father Hear us simply As the sparrows praise Who will love a little sparrow Who will wander for a sparrow's sake Along the unmarked path We have not walked before We have not been Where the leaves are mounded We have not been In hollows where no echo sounded We have found a place In the water's eye Beside the sea-claimed footprints In the scan of the lighthouse 
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But allied with grace all the same We lay the foundation And redirect the mail from Easy Street To heaven's new address Beneath your maiden name. Author and poet Matt Damsker has worked for the Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, and other newspapers, and has been a contributor to Rolling Stone magazine and other journals. His book Rock Voices was published in 1980 by St. Martin's Press. 
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