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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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The Solitary Reaper

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William Wordsworth·1770–1850
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ol. ii. pp. 399, 400, and the verses 'To the Spade of a Friend', invol. iv.--alludes to this incident at some length in his poem, 'EmontVale'. Wilkinson attended the funeral of young Gough, and writes of theincident with feeling, but without inspiration. Gough perished early inApril, and his body was not found till July 22nd, 1805. A reference tohis fate will be found in Lockhart's 'Life of Scott' (vol. ii. p. 274);also in a letter of Mr. Luff of Patterdale, to his wife, July 23rd,1805. Henry Crabb Robinson records (see his 'Diary, Reminiscences',etc., vol. ii. p. 25) a conversation with Wordsworth, in which he saidof this poem, that "he purposely made the narrative as prosaic aspossible, in order that no discredit might be thrown on the truth of theincident."--Ed.
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