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Sometimes I Consider My Pace
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I'm Reminded Of A Train Gathering Speed
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For The Climb To The Pass
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In Whose Shadow It All Really Lies
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A Small Metal Wagon Approaching
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The Ever Present Ascending Rise
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To The Southern Mountains
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Reeling And Snaking And Leaping
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It Seems Like It Wants To Come Loose
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>From Its Path Cast In Iron
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But She Can't Slow Down Now
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As The Earth Has Presented
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A New Crest To Reach
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Without Barely A Rest
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>From The Last One
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And You Wonder Just What Lies Beyond
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Though You've Been There Before
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And Forget About The Effort And The Strain
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Always Ascending
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Each Yard Adds A Mile
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To The Never-ending Pull
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Of The Steepening Grade
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That's Before You
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A Valley, A F?rest, A Desert, A Stream
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With An Oversized Bridge
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For The Trickle There Beneath
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You Remember The Torrent
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It Turned To Last Spring
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>From The Snows Melting Fast
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And The River It Became
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In The Summer
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Perhaps It Is Ruined
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>From A Fire That Has Scorched It
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So Badly That Nothing
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Will Grow Without Rain
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To Wash Away The Blackened Soil
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Now Useless Till Called Upon Again
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In A Future As Twisted And Far Away
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As The Next Range Of Mountains
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So Take It As Far As You See
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And Beyond
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With Eyes You Don't Use Enough
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Gather Up Strength
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As Thoroughfare Gap
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Will Await You Forever
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You're Seeking To Get There
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For Even Before
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It's No Matter
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No Distance
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It's The Ride