Inference

INFERENCE

-noun

1. the act or process of inferring

2. an inferred conclusion, deduction, etc.

3. any process of reasoning from premises to a conclusion

4. logic the specific mode of reasoning used.

when his miserable fatality 

fell upon the afternoon

it lost its effect, the nervous fancy of youth, 

that he had to destroy 

for the inference of modern times.

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Found poem using a prompt from Ross Goodwin’s Text Clock