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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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A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

“a king's accession to a confederacy”

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Unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley·1792–1822·Romanticism
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os pon sto, kai kosmon kineso.--Archimedes. TO HARRIET *****. Whose is the love that gleaming through the world,Wards off the poisonous arrow of its scorn?Whose is the warm and partial praise,Virtue's most sweet reward? Beneath whose looks did my reviving soul _5Riper in truth and virtuous daring grow?Whose eyes have I gazed fondly on,And loved mankind the more? HARRIET! on thine:--thou wert my purer mind;Thou wert the inspiration of my song; _10Thine are these early wilding flowers,Though garlanded by me. Then press into thy breast this pledge of love;And know, though time may change and years may roll,Each floweret gathered in my heart _15It consecrates to thine.
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