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Have I not told to her—living alone for her— Purposed unfoldments of deeds I had sown for her Here in the soil of my soul? their variety Endless—and ever she answered with piety.

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison

Have I not told to her—living alone for her— Purposed unfoldments of love I had sown for her Here in the soil of my soul? their variety Endless; and ever she answered with piety.—

From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.

They point both to extraordinary unfoldments within him, and to probable handlings and control of his outer form at times by some intelligence not his own.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

But that morning there had drifted through the city a message from the country—of a new spring, which would not be like nature's previous unfoldments, yet could not, for all its subtle differences, be denied.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French