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Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them<br />

true<br />

Here is the place where I love you.<br />

Rue’s eyes have fluttered shut. Her chest moves but only<br />

slightly. My throat releases the tears and they slide down my<br />

cheeks. But I have to finish the song for her.<br />

Deep in the meadow, hidden far away<br />

A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray<br />

Forget your woes and let your troubles lay<br />

And when again it’s morning, they’ll wash away.<br />

Here it’s safe, here it’s warm<br />

Here the daisies guard you from every harm<br />

The final lines are barely audible.<br />

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them<br />

true<br />

Here is the place where I love you.<br />

Everything’s still and quiet. Then, almost eerily, the mockingjays<br />

take up my song.<br />

For a moment, I sit there, watching my tears drip down on<br />

her face. Rue’s cannon fires. I lean forward and press my lips<br />

against her temple. Slowly, as if not to wake her, I lay her head<br />

back on the ground and release her hand.<br />

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