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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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BAPTISM

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Claude McKay·1889–1948·communist
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nto the furnace let me go alone;Stay you without in terror of the heat.I will go naked in--for thus ’tis sweet--Into the weird depths of the hottest zone.I will not quiver in the frailest bone,You will not note a flicker of defeat;My heart shall tremble not its fate to meet,My mouth give utterance to any moan.The yawning oven spits forth fiery spears;Red aspish tongues shout wordlessly my name.Desire destroys, consumes my mortal fears,Transforming me into a shape of flame.I will come out, back to your world of tears,A stronger soul within a finer frame.
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