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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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noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

“a king's accession to a confederacy”

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XXXVIII

6 lines
Algernon Charles Swinburne·1837–1909
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or now the deep dense plumes of night are thinnedSurely with winnowing of the glimmering windWhose feet are fledged with morning; and the breathBegins in heaven that sings the dark to death.And all the night wherein men groaned and sinnedSickens at heart to hear what sundawn saith.
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