Careful Words

seek (n.)

seek (v.)

  Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

New Testament: Matthew vii. 7.

For 't is a truth well known to most,

That whatsoever thing is lost,

We seek it, ere it come to light,

In every cranny but the right.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Retired Cat.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream,

And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

George Linley (1798-1865): Thou art gone.