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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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I. Claude to Eustace,--from Florence.

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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one from Florence; indeed! and that is truly provoking;--Gone to Milan, it seems; then I go also to Milan.Five days now departed; but they can travel but slowly;--I quicker far; and I know, as it happens, the home they will go to.--Why, what else should I do? Stay here and look at the pictures,Statues and churches? Alack, I am sick of the statues and pictures!--No, to Bologna, Parma, Piacenza, Lodi, and Milan,Off go we to-night,--and the Venus go to the Devil!
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