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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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in a way that is correct and exact; without error

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CARDELIA.

12 lines
Alexander Pope·1688–1744
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ut of what marble must that breast be form'd,To gaze on basset, and remain unwarm'd?When Kings, Queens, Knaves, are set in decent rank;Exposed in glorious heaps the tempting bank,Guineas, half-guineas, all the shining train;The winner's pleasure, and the loser's pain: 80In bright confusion open rouleaus lie,They strike the soul, and glitter in the eye.Fired by the sight, all reason I disdain;My passions rise, and will not bear the rein.Look upon basset, you who reason boast,And see if reason must not there be lost.
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