A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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To this new land, your grandfather
and l came, very long ago now.

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Because we heard that here is
something very good.

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Hard we worked. Very hard.
But we could not find this thing.

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For a long time, l do not understand.
And then l know.

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When l am old, l know.
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ln that old country, a child can
rise no higher

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than his father's state.
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But here, in this place, each one is
free to go

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as far as he's good to
make of himself.

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This way, the child can be better
than their parent

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and this is the true way
that things grow better.

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And this has to do something with
the learning,

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which is here free to all people.
l who am old, missed these things.

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My children missed these things.
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But my children's children shall not
miss it.

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This reading shall not stop.
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And you, Katie, it is not only for
the job that this is good,

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but for the true things
inside of us.

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You don't think well about this.
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Nor about what you do with your
sister.

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You have forgotten to think with
your heart.

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There is a coldness growing in you,
Katie.

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"Be shrew the witch with
venomous white she stays,

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as tediously as hell, but flies the
grasps of love..."

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"ln Dublin's fair city, where girls
are so pretty,


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