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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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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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XXXVI. REVOLUTION

12 lines
A.E. Housman·1859–1936
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est and away the wheels of darkness roll,Day's beamy banner up the east is borne,Spectres and fears, the nightmare and her foal,Drown in the golden deluge of the morn. But over sea and continent from sightSafe to the Indies has the earth conveyedThe vast and moon-eclipsing cone of night,Her towering foolscap of eternal shade. See, in mid heaven the sun is mounted; hark,The belfries tingle to the noonday chime.'Tis silent, and the subterranean darkHas crossed the nadir, and begins to climb.
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