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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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“Winning the science fair was a great accomplishment for Sarah.”

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Sedge-Warblers

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Edward Thomas
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HIS beauty made me dream there was a timeLong past and irrecoverable, a climeWhere any brook so radiant racing clearThrough buttercup and kingcup bright as brassBut gentle, nourishing the meadow grassThat leans and scurries in the wind, would bearAnother beauty, divine and feminine,Child to the sun, a nymph whose soul unstainedCould love all day, and never hate or tire,A lover of mortal or immortal kin. And yet, rid of this dream, ere I had drainedIts poison, quieted was my desireSo that I only looked into the water,Clearer than any goddess or man's daughter,And hearkened while it combed the dark green hairAnd shook the millions of the blossoms whiteOf water-crowfoot, and curdled to one sheetThe flowers fallen from the chestnuts in the parkFar off. And sedge-warblers, clinging so lightTo willow twigs, sang longer than the lark,Quick, shrill, or grating, a song to match the heatOf the strong sun, nor less the water's cool,Gushing through narrows, swirling in the pool.Their song that lacks all words, all melody,All sweetness almost, was dearer then to meThan sweetest voice that sings in tune sweet words.This was the best of May--the small brown birdsWisely reiterating endlesslyWhat no man learnt yet, in or out of school.
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