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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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adverb

In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

“He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.”

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Giving everybody a fair hearing.

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Sylvia Plath·1932–1963
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hey should have gone out with balloon flights and the stereopticon.This is no time for the private point of view. When I light them, my nostrils prickle. Their pale, tentative yellows Drag up false, Edwardian sentiments, And I remember my maternal grandmother from Vienna.As a schoolgirl she gave roses to Franz Josef. The burghers sweated and wept. The children wore white.And my grandfather moped in the Tyrol, Imagining himself a headwaiter in America,Floating in a high-church hush Among ice buckets, frosty napkins.
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