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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,--from Bellaggio.

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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have been up the Spluegen, and on the Stelvio also:Neither of these can I find they have followed; in no one inn, andThis would be odd, have they written their names. I have been to Porlezza;There they have not been seen, and therefore not at Lugano.What shall I do? Go on through the Tyrol, Switzerland, Deutschland,Seeking, an inverse Saul, a kingdom to find only asses?There is a tide, at least, in the LOVE affairs of mortals,Which, when taken at flood, leads on to the happiest fortune,--Leads to the marriage-morn and the orange-flowers and the altar,And the long lawful line of crowned joys to crowned joys succeeding.--Ah, it has ebbed with me! Ye gods, and when it was flowing,Pitiful fool that I was, to stand fiddle-faddling in that way!
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