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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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Ixvi ANDREW MARVELL.

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Andrew Marvell·1621–1678
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hen we see how he was loved by a man likeMarveU. I saw him dead : a leaden slumber lies.And moTta! sleep over ihose wakeful eyes ;Those genUe rays under the lids were Red,Which (hraugh bis looks that piercing sweetnessshed.But his praise would increase to af^er times,When liulh shall be allowed and foclioD cease.In the year preceding; Cromwell's deathMar veil had celebrated the great victoryobtained by Blake at Santa Cruz, and ten yearslater he described the heroic death of CaptainDouglas, who refused to leave his ship whenit had been set on fire by the Dutch. In thispiece, too, he remonstrated against tlie badfeeling between England and Scotland, fannedby the persecutions under Lauderdale andSharp: "Tis Holy Island parts us, not theTweed." He would not blame the King : — One king, one faith, one lajiguage, and one isle,English and Scotch, 'tis all but cross and pile.Charles, oui great soul, this only understands,He our afieclions both, and wills, commands. The well-known lines on " Paradise Lost," thelast tribute that he was to pay to the poet whomhe so greatly reverenced, hardly rank with the INTRODUCTION. Ixvii best of Marvell's work, in spite of the fineopening, "When I beheld the poet blind yetbold '' ; but the thoughts and aim are worthy,as they always were, of the subject, howevergreat that subject might be. In the followingyear, after Milton's death. Marvel! promisedAubrey to write a notice of his friend for theuse of Wood, who was then preparing his" Athenae Oxonienses," but the undertaking wasnever carried out.
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