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      Clear and Gentle Stream
      by Robert Bridges
      In "Clear and Gentle Stream," the English poet Robert Bridges (1844-1930) unfolds a nostalgic picture of a countryside childhood. The poem's speaker revisits the "clear and gentle stream" where he use
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      Orbital
      by Samantha Harvey
      Six astronauts and cosmonauts live aboard a space station, orbiting Earth every 90 minutes. They come from different countries—America, Japan, Britain, Italy, and Russia—but share the same confined sp
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      The Lover
      by Marguerite Duras
      The unnamed narrator, an adult female writer, thinks back to her childhood spent in French Indochina. Specifically, she reflects on how, at 18, her face changed in a way that made her appear suddenly
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