The Windmills of Your Mind - Noel Harrison

Round, like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel, Like a snowball down a mountain or a carnival balloon Like a carousel that’s turning running rings around the moon, Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face, And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind. Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own, Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone, Like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream, Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream, Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face, And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind. Keys that jingle in your pocket, words that jangle in your head; Why did sWhy did summer go so quickly? Was it something that I said? Lovers walk along a shore and leave their footprint
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