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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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II--THE QUICKSTEP

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Edwin Arlington Robinson·1869–1935
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he dirge is over, the good work is done,All as he would have had it, and we go;And we who leave him say we do not knowHow much is ended or how much begun.So men have said before of many a one;So men may say of us when Time shall throwSuch earth as may be needful to bestowOn you and me the covering hush we shun.Well hated, better loved, he played and lost,And left us; and we smile at his arrears;And who are we to know what it all cost,Or what we may have wrung from him, the buyer?The pageant of his failure-laden yearsTold ruin of high price. The place was higher.
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