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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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To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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The Barn and the Down

24 lines
Edward Thomas
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T stood in the sunset skyLike the straight-backed down,Many a time--the barnAt the edge of the town, So huge and dark that it seemedIt was the hillTill the gable's precipice provedIt impossible. Then the great down in the westGrew into sight,A barn stored full to the ridgeWith black of night; And the barn fell to a barnOr even lessBefore critical eyes and its ownLate mightiness. But far down and near barn and ISince then have smiled,Having seen my new cautiousnessBy itself beguiled To disdain what seemed the barnTill a few steps changedIt past all doubt to the down;So the barn was avenged.
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