XLIX.
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Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days,Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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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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