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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

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

“a king's accession to a confederacy”

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TO MR. H. LAWES ON HIS AIRS.

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John Milton·1608–1674
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arry, whose tuneful and well-measured songFirst taught our English music how to spanWords with just note and accent, not to scanWith Midas' ears, committing short and long,Thy worth and skill exempts thee from the throng, 5With praise enough for Envy to look wan;To after age thou shalt be writ the manThat with smooth air couldst humor best our tongue.Thou honor'st Verse, and Verse must send her wingTo honor thee, the priest of Phoebus' quire, 10That tunest their happiest lines in hymn or story.Dante shall give Fame leave to set thee higherThan his Casella, whom he wooed to sing,Met in the milder shades of Purgatory.
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