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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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SCENE V.

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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Adam with Cain and Abel._ _Adam._ Cain, beware!Strike not your brother! I have said, beware!A heavy curse is on this thing, my son.With doubt and fear,Terror and toil and pain already here,Let us not have injustice too, my son.So Cain, beware!And Abel, too, see you provoke him not.
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