AN AMERICAN ADDRESSES PHILOMELA
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rocne, Philomela, and Itylus, Your names are liquid, your improbable tale Is recited in the classic numbers of the nightingale.Ah, but our numbers are not felicitous,
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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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