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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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spic and span

Part of Speechadjective

Clean, spotless; original sense “like new”.

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I mopped up the kitchen floor so it was spick-and-span.

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