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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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X. Claude to Eustace,-from Rome.

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Arthur Hugh Clough·1819–1861
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ome will not suit me, Eustace; the priests and soldiers possess it;Priests and soldiers:--and, ah! which is the worst, the priest or the soldier?Politics, farewell, however! For what could I do? with inquiring,Talking, collating the journals, go fever my brain about things o'erWhich I can have no control. No, happen whatever may happen,Time, I suppose, will subsist; the earth will revolve on its axis;People will travel; the stranger will wander as now in the city;Rome will be here, and the Pope the custode of Vatican marbles.I have no heart, however, for any marble or fresco;I have essayed it in vain; 'tis in vain as yet to essay it:But I may haply resume some day my studies in this kind;Not as the Scripture says, is, I think, the fact. Ere our death-day,Faith, I think, does pass, and Love; but Knowledge abideth.Let us seek Knowledge;--the rest may come and go as it happens.Knowledge is hard to seek, and harder yet to adhere to.Knowledge is painful often; and yet when we know we are happy.Seek it, and leave mere Faith and Love to come with the chances.As for Hope,--to-morrow I hope to be starting for Naples.Rome will not do, I see, for many very good reasons.Eastward, then, I suppose, with the coming of winter, to Egypt.
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