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

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GATHERING LEAVES

24 lines
Robert Frost·1874–1963
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pades take up leavesNo better than spoons,And bags full of leavesAre light as balloons. I make a great noiseOf rustling all dayLike rabbit and deerRunning away. But the mountains I raiseElude my embrace,Flowing over my armsAnd into my face. I may load and unloadAgain and againTill I fill the whole shed,And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight;And since they grew dullerFrom contact with earth,Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use.But a crop is a crop,And who's to say whereThe harvest shall stop?
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