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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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verb

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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And as the lady looked with faithful grief

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Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822·Romanticism
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nd blighting hope, who with the news of deathStruck body and soul as with a mortal blight,She saw between the chestnuts, far beneath, An old man toiling up, a weary wight; _155And soon within her hospitable hallShe saw his white hairs glittering in the light Of the wood fire, and round his shoulders fall;And his wan visage and his withered mien,Yet calm and gentle and majestical. _160 And Athanase, her child, who must have beenThen three years old, sate opposite and gazedIn patient silence.
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