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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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noun

Agreement; harmony; conformity; compliance.

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The Starlight Night

14 lines
Gerard Manley Hopkins·1844–1889
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ook at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes!The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare!—Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize.Buy then! bid then!—What?—Prayer, patience, aims, vows.Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs! Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows!These are indeed the barn; withindoors houseThe shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows.
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