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~Thomas Paine, 1795
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Beautiful poem. Particularly like “eye” for “I” which makes the visual of not being there all the more real.
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Thank you for reading and sharing of your thoughts. I used eye there, in order to shift from I to visual eye, as in perceptive physical sight. 🙂
It is and ending I, and a beginning of the the next section as eye.
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lovely love poem.
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