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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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Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

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Divers doth use

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ivers doth use, as I have heard and know,When that to change their ladies do begin,To mourn and wail, and never for to lin,Hoping thereby to pease their painful woe.And some there be, that when it chanceth soThat women change and hate where love hath been,They call them false and think with words to winThe hearts of them which otherwhere doth grow.But as for me, though that by chance indeedChange hath outworn the favor that I had,I will not wail, lament, not yet be sad,Nor call her false that falsely did me feed,But let it pass, and think it is of kindThat often change doth please a woman's mind.