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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 an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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SIXTY YEARS AFTER 25

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson·1809–1892
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arless? war will die out late then. Will it ever?late or soon?Can it, till this outworn earth be dead as yon dead world the moon ? Dead the new astronomy calls her. . . . On thisday and at this hour,In this gap between the sandhills, whence you see the Locksley tower, Here we met, our latest meeting —Amy—-sixty yearsago—She and I—the moon was falling greenish thro’ a rosy glow, Just above the gateway tower, and even where yousee her now—Here we stood and claspt each other, swore the seeming-deathless vow. . . .
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