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The Broken String

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W. H. I. Bleek
Specimens of Bushman Folklore
George Allen & Company, Ltd, London
1911
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The Broken String: grief, loss, severance, memory, absence, lament
Public Domain (copyright expired)
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The Broken String

People were those who
Broke for me the string.
Therefore,
The place became like this to me,
On account of it,
Because the string was that which broke for me.
Therefore,
The place does not feel to me,
As the place used to feel to me,
On account of it.
For,
The place feels as if it stood open before me,
Because the string has broken for me.
Therefore,
The place does not feel pleasant to me,
On account of it.

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