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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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WHY I AM A LIBERAL

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Robert Browning·1812–1889
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Why?" Because all I haply can and do,All that I am now, all I hope to be,--Whence comes it save from fortune setting freeBody and soul the purpose to pursue,God traced for both? If fetters, not a few,Of prejudice, convention, fall from me,These shall I bid men--each in his degreeAlso God-guided--bear, and gayly too?But little do or can the best of us:That little is achieved thro' Liberty. 10Who then dares hold, emancipated thus,His fellow shall continue bound? not I,Who live, love, labour freely, nor discussA brother's right to freedom. That is "Why." * * * * *
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