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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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A FRAGMENT.

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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_An interval of thirty years._] SCENE I.—_In London. Dipsychus in his Study._ _Dipsychus._ O God! O God! and must I still go onDoing this work—I know not, hell’s or thine;And these rewards receiving—sure not thine;The adulation of a foolish crowd,Half foolish and half greedy; upright judge—Lawyer acute—the Mansfield and the HaleIn one united to bless modern Courts.O God! O God! According to the law,With solemn face to solemn sentence fit,Doing the justice that is but half just;Punishing wrong that is not truly wrong!Administering, alas, God! not Thy law. (_Knock at the door._)
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