
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(84, 130, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 26pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">An Immigrant Hymn</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">By Madam Anonymous </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">Must be difficult, to break all ties </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To separate the truth from the lies</span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of your comforting cradle of birth </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Toward a far land, set forth. </span><br></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">Must be difficult, to unlearn </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Everything you once knew </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The new speedily in your mind burn </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A different thinking accept as true </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Must be difficult, to get used </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To faces white and black </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To wish self-protective skills fused </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Master the alien with an easy knack </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Must be difficult, more than the ways </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To tragically leave behind </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The feel of rainy tropical days </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Neighbors and friends kind </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Must be difficult, to restart </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">From the bottom of the ladder </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">With your strange foreign ways part </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Keep the homesickness from making you sadder </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But, yet you do it </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial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