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 "title": "Two Look at Two",
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    "text": "Love and forgetting might have carried them",
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    "text": "A little further up the mountain side",
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    "text": "With night so near, but not much further up.",
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    "text": "They must have halted soon in any case",
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    "text": "With thoughts of the path back, how rough it was",
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    "text": "With rock and washout, and unsafe in darkness;",
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    "text": "When they were halted by a tumbled wall",
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    "text": "With barbed-wire binding. They stood facing this,",
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    "text": "Spending what onward impulse they still had",
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    "text": "In one last look the way they must not go,",
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    "text": "On up the failing path, where, if a stone",
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    "text": "Or earthslide moved at night, it moved itself;",
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    "text": "No footstep moved it. “This is all,” they sighed,",
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    "text": "“Good-night to woods.” But not so; there was more.",
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    "text": "A doe from round a spruce stood looking at them",
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    "text": "Across the wall, as near the wall as they.",
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    "text": "She saw them in their field, they her in hers.",
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    "text": "The difficulty of seeing what stood still,",
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    "text": "Like some up-ended boulder split in two,",
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    "text": "Was in her clouded eyes: they saw no fear there.",
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    "text": "She seemed to think that two thus they were safe.",
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    "text": "Then, as if they were something that, though strange,",
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    "text": "She could not trouble her mind with too long,",
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    "text": "She sighed and passed unscared along the wall.",
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   {
    "text": "“This, then, is all. What more is there to ask?”",
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    "text": "But no, not yet. A snort to bid them wait.",
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    "text": "A buck from round the spruce stood looking at them",
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    "text": "Across the wall as near the wall as they.",
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    "text": "This was an antlered buck of lusty nostril,",
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    "text": "Not the same doe come back into her place.",
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   {
    "text": "He viewed them quizzically with jerks of head,",
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   {
    "text": "As if to ask, “Why don’t you make some motion?",
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    "text": "Or give some sign of life? Because you can’t.",
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    "text": "I doubt if you’re as living as you look.”",
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    "text": "Thus till he had them almost feeling dared",
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    "text": "To stretch a proffering hand⁠—and a spell-breaking.",
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    "text": "Then he too passed unscared along the wall.",
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    "text": "Two had seen two, whichever side you spoke from.",
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    "text": "“This must be all.” It was all. Still they stood,",
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    "text": "A great wave from it going over them,",
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    "text": "As if the earth in one unlooked-for favor",
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    "text": "Had made them certain earth returned their love.",
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