still-piecing

What is _still-closing_ but _still-piecing_, the silent reunion after severance?

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To say "_wound_ the still-piecing air" would be to direct to be done, in one passage, that which the other passage declares to be absurd to expect!

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Fly with false aim; _move_ the _still-piecing_ air,

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_still-piecing_, which I have compared in the above paper, been noticed by these {404} editors, they would no more have hesitated in accepting

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"wound the still-piecing air that sings with piercing" is a consistent whole.

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