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Faber and Faber To Catch A Cloud de Roo Elena

Faber and Faber To Catch A Cloud de Roo Elena

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I spy a cloud go floating by • Where do you go, Cloud, so high? • To the sea • She sings • Where the wild gulls fly • Then catch me if you can • I cry • We race each other to the sea • Can”t catch me, Cloud • Can’t catch me • A boy and a dog follow a cloud out to sea, but as the weather worsens he relies on the whales and waves to bear him home подробнее
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