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The secrets of the house
Are just beyond these walls
They hide in long-forgotten shadows
In everyone's life
There is darkness and light
There is a blindness
There is sight
Men and women die
Christians lose their faith
Scholars falter in their wisdom
In one woman's life
There's an end, there's a start
For the secrets of the house
Are like the secrets of the heart
Jane
My name is Jane Eyre.
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My story begins gentle audience, a long time ago
Jane's Father
In the home of a poor clergyman...
Jane's Mother
And his wife...
Jane
My parents
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There is my father, as I now imagine him...
And there is my mother...
Jane
And there I am...
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Jane Eyre.
Jane
A baby in my father's arms.
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He looked in my eyes
With the light growing dim
And his own eyes appeared
Looking straight up at him
Jane
Those same dark eyes
That I look through now
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Within a year of their marriage, and a bare few weeks of my birth, my father caught the typhus fever while visiting among the poor.
Jane's Mother
There is a fever on your brow
And I fear the worst has come
You will soon be taken
And leave us here, forsaken
A thousand dreams are washed away
By an evil we can't see
That soon will swallow me
Who will take our child to raise
When we are gone
And she can't remember us?
Jane, be strong
For we'll be watching you from heaven
Jane's Father
What kind of woman will she be?
The world is dark and cold
Will she have our faith?
Will she put her trust in her God?
When we are blind to the earth she walks upon
Will life be kind
When we are not here to protect her?
Jane's Mother
I pray that she'll be strong
And find her way along
So we must put our trust in God
Now and forever more
We'll be watching from heaven
Jane, be strong
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Who will provide for her?
Who will decide for her?
Who'll see the good in this child?
What can be done for her?
Life has just begun for her
Who'll see the good in this child?
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