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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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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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Tears

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Edward Thomas
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T seems I have no tears left. They should have fallen--Their ghosts, if tears have ghosts, did fall--that dayWhen twenty hounds streamed by me, not yet combed outBut still all equals in their rage of gladnessUpon the scent, made one, like a great dragonIn Blooming Meadow that bends towards the sunAnd once bore hops: and on that other dayWhen I stepped out from the double-shadowed TowerInto an April morning, stirring and sweetAnd warm. Strange solitude was there and silence.A mightier charm than any in the TowerPossessed the courtyard. They were changing guardSoldiers in line, young English countrymen,Fair-haired and ruddy, in white tunics. DrumsAnd fifes were playing "The British Grenadiers".The men, the music piercing that solitudeAnd silence, told me truths I had not dreamedAnd have forgotten since their beauty passed.
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