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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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Cold Comfort

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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ay, will it, when our hairs are grey,And wintry suns half light the day,Which cheering hope and strengthening trustHave left, departed, turned to dust,Say, will it soothe lone years to extractFrom fitful shows with sense exactTheir sad residuum, small, of fact?Will trembling nerves their solace findIn plain conclusions of the mind?Or errant fancies fond, that stillTo fretful motions prompt the will,Repose upon effect and cause,And action of unvarying laws,And human life’s familiar doom,And on the all-concluding tomb. Or were it to our kind and race,And our instructed selves, disgraceTo wander then once more in you,Green fields, beneath the pleasant blue;To dream as we were used to dream,And let things be whate’er they seem? O feeble shapes of beggars greyThat, tottering on the public way,Die out in doting, dim decay,Is it to you when all is pastOur would-be wisdom turns at last?
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