“In another time's forgotten space, your eyes looked through your mother's face, Wildflower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow you safely home. Roll away … the dew”

—  Robert Hunter

"Franklin's Tower"
Song lyrics, Blues for Allah (1975)

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