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OVER AND OVER, by                    
First Line: Arguing day by day, over and over and over
Last Line: Two brothers palsied and grey, arguing over and over.
Subject(s): Abel; Adam & Eve; Bible; Cain; God


Arguing day by day, over and over and over,
When white is the field with snow, or sweet with clover,
Two brothers upright and strong, arguing over and over.
Over Adam and Eve, and the Land of Nod,
Where Cain got him a wife from a people not fashioned by God.

Over the farmer Cain and the shepherd Abel,
And why burnt flesh smelled sweeter to God than a roasted vegetable.

Over the sons of God who walked abroad on the earth,
And slept with the daughters of men, and giants were given birth.

Over Noah's Ark and the rising Tower of Babel . . .
"Gospel truth," cries one. The other, "Not even a fable."
Over each word in the book that each has conned over and over,

When white is the field with snow, or sweet with clover,
Two brothers palsied and grey, arguing over and over.





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