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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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III. Claude to Eustace.

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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arewell, Politics, utterly! What can I do? I cannotFight, you know; and to talk I am wholly ashamed. And although IGnash my teeth when I look in your French or your English papers,What is the good of that? Will swearing, I wonder, mend matters?Cursing and scolding repel the assailants? No, it is idle;No, whatever befalls, I will hide, will ignore or forget it.Let the tail shift for itself; I will bury my head. And what's theRoman Republic to me, or I to the Roman Republic?Why not fight?--In the first place, I haven't so much as a musket;In the next, if I had, I shouldn't know how I should use it;In the third, just at present I'm studying ancient marbles;In the fourth, I consider I owe my life to my country;In the fifth--I forget, but four good reasons are ample.Meantime, pray let 'em fight, and be killed. I delight in devotion.So that I 'list not, hurrah for the glorious army of martyrs!Sanguis martyrum semen Ecclesiae; though it would seem thisChurch is indeed of the purely Invisible, Kingdom-come kind:Militant here on earth! Triumphant, of course, then, elsewhere!Ah, good Heaven, but I would I were out far away from the pother!
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