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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,--from Bellaggio.

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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one to Como, they said; and I have posted to Como.There was a letter left; but the cameriere had lost it.Could it have been for me? They came, however, to Como,And from Como went by the boat,--perhaps to the Spluegen,--Or to the Stelvio, say, and the Tyrol; also it might beBy Porlezza across to Lugano, and so to the SimplonPossibly, or the St. Gothard,--or possibly, too, to Baveno,Orta, Turin, and elsewhere. Indeed, I am greatly bewildered.
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