We glide in sleep's oblivion
As small cocks crow for morning
And nesting hawks scream at times
And bats flit waveringly home
A moon already past the high windows
And gone gravely in the sea
Was the only witness on heaven and earth
To what we've done my darling

Roloff Beny, Japan

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"Anniversary" with musical background:
Mooncoin, "The Night Visitor", Mooncoin, Kicking Mule Records, 1982

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