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Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
      For Thine ts the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
      Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
      For Thine is the Kingdom

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