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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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XV

18 lines
A.E. Housman·1859–1936
oox not in my eyes, for fearThey mirror true the sight I see,And there you find your face too clearAnd love it and be lost like me.One the long nights through must lieSpent in star-defeated sighs,But why should you as well as IPerish ? gaze not in my eyes. A Grecian lad, as I hear tell,One that many loved in vain,Looked into a forest wellAnd never looked away again,There, when the turf in springtime flowers,With downward eye and gazes sad,Stands amid the glancing showersA jonquil, not a Grecian lad. * 23