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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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noun

A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined

“a king's accession to a confederacy”

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When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I

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W.S. Merwin·1927–2019
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oet4 6 16 The summits guide, but among summits. They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you.And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. It is when I assent to nothing that I assent to all. Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, isalmost nothing. You will find the distance that separates you fromthem, by joining them. A hundred men together are the hundredth partof a man. When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me somuch that I need an abyss in order to rest. Not everyone does evil, but everyone standsaccused.
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