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“Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will not last long, because, just as my song relents, love rarely stays when it descends on children's hearts, but meets its death the way that warmth fades on our breath.” — Simon Armitage
Through pity, then, I can't resist
delivering a song of bliss
when witnessing the painful trace
that love leaves in a young girl's face.
I try to teach them, through my song,
love of that kind will not last long,
because, just as my song relents,
love rarely stays when it descends
on children's hearts, but meets its death
the way that warmth fades on our breath.