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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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ON A TREE FALLEN ACROSS THE ROAD

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Robert Frost·1874–1963
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he tree the tempest with a crash of woodThrows down in front of us is not to barOur passage to our journey's end for good,But just to ask us who we think we are Insisting always on our own way so.She likes to halt us in our runner tracks,And make us get down in a foot of snowDebating what to do without an axe. And yet she knows obstruction is in vain:We will not be put off the final goalWe have it hidden in us to attain,Not though we have to seize earth by the pole And, tired of aimless circling in one place,Steer straight off after something into space.
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