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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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Before Dawn

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Amy Lowell·1874–1925
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ife! Austere arbiter of each man's fate,By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast lawsAre as decrees immutable; O pauseYour even forward march! Not yet too lateTeach me the needed lesson, when to waitInactive as a ship when no wind drawsTo stretch the loosened cordage. One imploresThy clemency, whose wilfulness innateHas gone uncurbed and roughshod while the yearsHave lengthened into decades; now distressedHe knows no rule by which to move or stay,And teased with restlessness and desperate fearsHe dares not watch in silence thy wise wayBringing about results none could have guessed.
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