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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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That there between the man and beast they die.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson·1809–1892
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hall I not lift her from this land of beastsUp to my throne, and side by side with me?What happiness to reign a lonely king,Vext—O ye stars that shudder over me, O earth that soundest hollow under me, ) Vext with waste dreams? for saving I be join’d'. To her that is the fairest under heaven, I seem as nothing in the mighty world, And cannot will my will, nor work my workWholly, nor make myself in mine own realmVictor and lord. But were I join’d with her,Then might we live together as one life, 60 65 7° 75 80 85 90
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