Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...called, but I could elicit no response. In dumb despair I hurried through unfamiliar paths, hoping to regain the clearing. In vain! Fate had ordained otherwise. Weary, helpless, I abandoned myself to my tears, and they did not desert me. I wept until I remembered that crying injured the complexion, and then I sat upright and looked about me. The sun was sinking in the west; my heart was sinking in my breast. (There! I never knew I was a poet before...