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Chrysalis

As football poems always do well on here...?

I thought I'd torture you with this one I wrote about the best club in England ?

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On Sunderland docksĀ 

They riveted iron & steelĀ 

In surrounding villagesĀ 

Whirred the pulley wheelĀ 

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Graft and toil madeĀ 

The industrial North EastĀ 

Sweat and blood spilledĀ 

All with little releaseĀ 

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But teaching minds resolvedĀ 

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