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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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NATURAL MAGIC

19 lines
Robert Browning·1812–1889
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ll I can say is--I saw it!The room was as bare as your hand.I locked in the swarth little lady,--I swear,From the head to the foot of her--well, quite as bare!"No Nautch deg. shall cheat me," said I, "taking my stand deg.5At this bolt which I draw!" And this bolt--I withdraw it,And there laughs the lady, not bare, but emboweredWith--who knows what verdure, o'erfruited, o'erflowered?Impossible! Only--I saw it! All I can sing is--I feel it! 10This life was as blank as that room;I let you pass in here. Precaution, indeed?Walls, ceiling, and floor,--not a chance for a weed!Wide opens the entrance: where's cold, now, where's gloom?No May to sow seed here, no June to reveal it,Behold you enshrined in these blooms of your bringing,These fruits of your bearing--nay, birds of your winging!A fairy-tale! Only--I feel it! * * * * *
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