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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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Andrew Marvell·1621–1678
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or to this naked equal flat,Which Levellers * take pattern at,The vilJagerfl, in commoB chaseTheir cattle, which it closer rase;And what below the scythe increa-sedIh pinched yet nearer by the beast.Such, in the painted world, appearedDaveaant, with the universal herd.i They eeem within the polished graasA laodstip drawn in looking-gksB ;And shrunk in the huge pasturej showA§ spots BO shaped on faces do j ■ A well-known dyer of tbe age. 'The arena at Madrid. ' The democratic party araoiiE tfac Parli'amcntnry f(who mutiniEd. and were defeated by F.iirfii:. + A rtfereflce to Divtna.in.'a datnpliaa of paintiagthe lix dajt' creation in Gandlbtrff canto Vl. "Then itr^aiglit an uaiveran! hcrri appear*,First gating oa txch otlwrr in the shade,Wondering with JcvelleH eyes nii'l liftcrt eara," etc. Atl tbe poets of the age \aA their Jen j1 the ILiureiCe'a work.
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