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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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Canto IV.

10 lines
Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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astward, or Northward, or West? I wander and ask as I wander;Weary, yet eager and sure, Where shall I come to my love?Whitherward hasten to seek her? Ye daughters of Italy, tell me,Graceful and tender and dark, is she consorting with you?Thou that out-climbest the torrent, that tendest thy goats to the summit,Call to me, child of the Alp, has she been seen on the heights?Italy, farewell I bid thee! for whither she leads me, I follow.Farewell the vineyard! for I, where I but guess her, must go;Weariness welcome, and labour, wherever it be, if at last itBring me in mountain or plain into the sight of my love.
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