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Returning to the shores of Lake Geneva this July, the Swiss festival marks its 60th edition.
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"To a Child Dancing Upon the Shore" is a track by Sting, from the album A Fanatic Heart: Bob Geldof on W.B. Yeats, released 9th February 2018. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Sting.
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Dance there upon the shore; What need have you to care For wind or waters roar? And tumble out your hair That the salt drops have wet; Being young you have not known The fools triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind What need have you to dread The monstrous crying of wind? Has no one said those daring Kind eyes should be more learnd? Or warned you how despairing The moths are when they are burned I could havе warned you, but you are young So we spеak a different tongue O you will take what evers offered And dream that all the worlds a friend Suffer as your mother suffered Be as broken in the end But I am old and you are young And I speak a barbarous tongue
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Returning to the shores of Lake Geneva this July, the Swiss festival marks its 60th edition.

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