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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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II. Claude to Eustace.

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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lorence.Action will furnish belief,--but will that belief be the true one?This is the point, you know. However, it doesn't much matter.What one wants, I suppose, is to predetermine the action,So as to make it entail, not a chance belief, but the true one.Out of the question, you say; if a thing isn't wrong we may do it.Ah! but this WRONG, you see--but I do not know that it matters.Eustace, the Ropers are gone, and no one can tell me about them. Pisa.Pisa, they say they think, and so I follow to Pisa,Hither and thither inquiring. I weary of making inquiries.I am ashamed, I declare, of asking people about it.--Who are your friends? You said you had friends who would certainly know them. Florence.But it is idle, moping, and thinking, and trying to fix herImage once more and more in, to write the whole perfect inscriptionOver and over again upon every page of remembrance.I have settled to stay at Florence to wait for your answer.Who are your friends? Write quickly and tell me. I wait for your answer.
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