Of dying fish ; the vermeil rose had blown
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Like spiked aloe. If an innocent bird Before my heedless footsteps stiiT'd, and stirr*dj In little journeys, I beheld in it ' A disguised demon, missioned to knit
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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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