In your fire you hear me scream, creaking and whining, yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.

In your fire you hear me scream, creaking and whining, yet I am dead before you lay me in your hearth.

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I’m grown from darkness but shine with a pale light. Very round I am and always a lady's delight.

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