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How can I, that girl standing there,

My attention fix

 On Roman or on Russian

 Or on Spanish politics?

Yet here's a travelled man who (that) knows

What he talks about,

And there's a politician

That has read and thought,

 And maybe what they say is true

 Of war and war's alarms,

 But O that I were young again

 And held her in my arms!