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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 THE RIVER OTTER

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge·1772–1834
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ear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West!How many various-fated years have past,What happy and what mournful hours, since lastI skimm'd the smooth thin stone along thy breast,Numbering its light leaps! yet so deep imprest 5Sink the sweet scenes of childhood, that mine eyesI never shut amid the sunny ray,But straight with all their tints thy waters rise,Thy crossing plank, thy marge with willows grey,And bedded sand that vein'd with various dyes 10Gleam'd through thy bright transparence! On my way,Visions of Childhood! oft have ye beguil'dLone manhood's cares, yet waking fondest sighs:Ah! that once more I were a careless Child! ? 1793. FOOTNOTES: [48:2] Lines 2-11 were first published in the _Watchman_, No. V, April2, 1796, as lines 17-26 of _Recollection_. First published, as a whole,in _Selection of Sonnets_, 1796, included in 1797, 1803, _SibyllineLeaves_, 1828, 1829, and 1834. LINENOTES: Title] Sonnet No. IV. To the, &c., 1797, 1803. [3] What blissful and what anguish'd hours Watchman, S. S., 1797, 1803. [7] ray] blaze Watchman, S. S., 1797, 1803. [8] thy] their S. L. _Corrected in Errata_, p. [xii]. [9] The crossing plank, and margin's willowy maze Watchman. Thy crossing plank, thy margin's willowy maze S. S., 1797, 1803. [11] On my way] to the gaze Watchman, S. S., 1797, 1803. [14] Ah! that I were once more, &c. S. L. _Corrected in Errata_, p.[xii].
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