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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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In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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The Cuckoo

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Edward Thomas
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HAT'S the cuckoo, you say. I cannot hear it.When last I heard it I cannot recall; but I knowToo well the year when first I failed to hear it--It was drowned by my man groaning out to his sheep "Ho! Ho!" Ten times with an angry voice he shouted"Ho! Ho!" but not in anger, for that was his way.He died that Summer, and that is how I rememberThe cuckoo calling, the children listening, and me saying, "Nay." And now, as you said, "There it is," I was hearingNot the cuckoo at all, but my man's "Ho! Ho!" instead.And I think that even if I could lose my deafnessThe cuckoo's note would be drowned by the voice of my dead.
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