The Brightest and The Best
        (Will Still be Welcome)

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She was the brightest and the best 
bum cleaner in her generation.
She'd travelled far to care
for the elderly
and they loved her dear.
She was the brightest and the best.
Not a nuclear physicist
nor a computer engineer.
She'd never built a car.
She tended only to the hearts of
the sick and dying,
she brought her radiant
smiles, her jokes and kindness.

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She was the very brightest and the very best.

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Just the wrong sort of bright,
and the wrong shade of best.

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But I'll tell you what,
when I'm dying give me this brightest
and best of heart by my bed side.

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You can keep your nuclear physicist.

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 DG