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Appeared in the May 1, 2026, print edition as 'Iran Grasps for Solution to U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

For time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

Hand Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand, And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various

I am here!—What cowering agitation Grasps thee, the demigod!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

Again, Grasps he the Bolt? we ask, when he has hurl’d the Flame.

From An apology for the study of northern antiquities by Elstob, Elizabeth