Michael Morpurgo Quotes
There Were Several Recently Dug Graves In The Churchyard, But I Found Only One That Was Freshly Dug And Covered With Fresh Flowers. I Had Known Anna Only From A Few Laughing Words, From The Light In Her Eyes, A Touch Of Hands And A Fleeting Kiss, But I Felt An Ache Inside Me Such As I Had Not Felt Since I Was A Child, Since My Father's Death. I Looked Up At The Church Steeple, A Dark Arrow Pointing At The Moon And Beyond, And Tried With All My Heart And Mind To Believe She Was Up There Somewhere In That Vast Expanse Of Infinity, Up There In Sunday-school Heaven, In Big Joe's Happy Heaven. I Couldn't Bring Myself To Think It. I Knew She Was Lying In The Cold Earth At My Feet. I Knelt Down And Kissed The Earth, Then Left Her There. The Moon Sailed Above Me, Following Behind Me, Through The Trees, Lighting My Way Back To Camp. By The Time I Got There I Had No More Tears Left To Cry. The
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