O! many a shaft at random sent
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O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.
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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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