'As in the distance, an idea from 'then' took hold. I recalled both the times and the places of you, then.'
'Floating free, the remedy. I wondered about that...'
'A sacred gravesite, an old war. Quarrels determined; now no more.'
'I thou, me my, then now, why why.'
'Oh, all the fields of worry and woe; and all the places that are, we go.'
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'Oh all the fields of wisdom and woe; and everywhere there is, we go.'
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'A reverie without definition; a dream in a single moment.'
'I passed a pastoral moment, only as oddly portrayed in a window's placement.'
'My own heart...at the center of a fierce battle.'
'My animadiversion held a certain sweetness to itself. The location of placid feelings in a torrent field of storms.'
'This cantankerous place, this feuding hulk - some new sort of harmony on the shoreline of doubt and want.'
'Having met this Devil, I took him in.'
'Yes, I have thought out an array of possibilities for all these things - but to no avail. As of yet nothing has happened
, and probably nothing will. This life is a solid bulwark against changing fortunes.
'This mystery? Oh, nothing special - a mystery like any other, I suppose.'
'Taken away, relocated; gone like something.'
'In my register of impatience, this didn't even qualify - everything was warm, slow, gradual & silent; a long pause just waiting for something to happen.'
'I waited for you, at something like 2 o'clock, beneath the tower we'd arranged to meet at. But nothing came, and they told me you were gone. Confused and sullen, I walked away.'
'By the crossroads, I found your name in an ancient ledger at the Floyd Best Store - written in a sepia ink, where the pages had yellowed and turned almost to dust.'
'Bugle colors, muted hues - nothing on this stuff; old crooked panes above the doorway. Silence.'
'Like an Istanbul of edifice, staring me in the face.'
'My heartfelt oasis wandering high; my all-good intentions drawn up towards the sky.'
'It came forth, suddenly open, like a geography of lines and angles.'
'The idea of creation is also an idea of complete unchangeability - and that is the paradox of all times.'
'The fair conundrum, a system of aces, burst forth to pull me back'
'Take me rickety, oh take me home - the land across the land I love.'