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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 VIII.

12 lines
Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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Adam and Eve._ _Adam._ These sacrificings, O my best beloved,These rites and forms which you have taught our boys,Which I nor practise nor can understand,Will turn, I trust, to good; but I much fear.Besides the superstitious search of signsIn merest accidents of earth and air,They cause, I think, a sort of jealousy—Ill-blood. Hark, now! _Eve._ O God, whose cry is that?Abel, where is my Abel? _Adam._ Cain! what, Cain!
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